Kikaijima (喜界島, also Kikai-ga-jima; Kikai: キャーKyaa, Northern Ryukyuan: ききやKikiya) is one of the Satsunan Islands, classed with the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa.[1]
The island, 56.93 square kilometres (21.98 sq mi) in area, has a population of approximately 7,657 people. Administratively the island forms the town of Kikai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Much of the island is within the borders of the Amami Guntō Quasi-National Park.
^Teikoku's Complete Atlas of Japan, Teikoku-Shoin Co., Ltd., Tokyo, ISBN 4-8071-0004-1
Kikaijima (喜界島, also Kikai-ga-jima; Kikai: キャー Kyaa, Northern Ryukyuan: ききや Kikiya) is one of the Satsunan Islands, classed with the Amami archipelago...
KKX, ICAO: RJKI), also known as Kikaijima Airport or Kikaiga Shima Airport, is located in Kikai, a town on Kikaijima (also known as Kikai Island, Kikaishima...
series follows Medaka Kurokami, Zenkichi Hitoyoshi, Kouki Akune and Mogana Kikaijima, who are the members of the student council, during their various adventures...
Conservation of Endangered Dialects in Japan: Research Report on the Kikaijima Dialects] (PDF) (in Japanese). pp. 115–122. Pellard, Thomas (2018). The...
Maggie Flecknoe (English) Mogana Kikaijima (喜界島 もがな, Kikaijima Mogana) is originally the ace of the swim team, Kikaijima serves as the treasurer of the...
executed. Other conspirators (Naritsune, Yasuyori and Shunkan) are exiled to Kikaijima near Satsuma Province. Meanwhile, the Enryaku-ji complex is destroyed...
series follows Medaka Kurokami, Zenkichi Hitoyoshi, Kouki Akune and Mogana Kikaijima, who are the members of the student council, during their various adventures...
pillaged a wide area of Kyūshū in 997. In response, Dazaifu ordered Kikaijima (貴駕島) to arrest the Nanban. The Nanban trade as a form of European contact...
no Hi (シマユムタの日) or Shimakutuba no Hi (シマクトゥバの日) (also written 島口の日) On Kikaijima it is Shimayumita no Hi (シマユミタの日) On Tokunoshima it is Shimaguchi no Hi...
in the 19th century. Tajima was born and died on the small island of Kikaijima in the Amami Islands chain, about halfway between Okinawa and the main...
major varieties are, from northeast to southwest: Kikai, on the island of Kikaijima. Northern Amami Ōshima, spoken in most of Amami Ōshima Southern Amami...
overseas trade, as well as expansion of the kingdom's firm control to Kikaijima, Miyako-jima and Yaeyama Islands (1465–1524), while during Shō Sei (1526-1555)...
grows on Okinawa Islands, as well as the Tokara Islands, Amami Ōshima and Kikaijima. P. odorifer grows widely at the St. Martin's Island of Bangladesh, although...
payments and capture the Kaima (Isaribi). The group heads to Demon Island (Kikaijima), an island located in the Land of the Sea where supposedly the Kaima...
Japanese scholarship acknowledges that these tales are restricted to Kikaijima and Okinoerabujima. Japanese folklorist Keigo Seki also found variants...
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