Ryukyuan culture (琉球の文化, Ryūkyū no bunka) are the cultural elements of the indigenous Ryukyuan people, an ethnic group native to Okinawa Prefecture and parts of Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan.
The cultural elements of the Ryukyuans are far from a unified entity, with different islands having their own distinct subculture and practices. Furthermore, the inhabitants of the Tokara and Ōsumi Islands are of Yamato Japanese descent, akin to the inhabitants of mainland Japan.
Ryukyuanculture (琉球の文化, Ryūkyū no bunka) are the cultural elements of the indigenous Ryukyuan people, an ethnic group native to Okinawa Prefecture and...
The Ryukyuan languages (琉球語派, Ryūkyū-goha, also 琉球諸語, Ryūkyū-shogo or 島言葉 in Ryukyuan, Shima kutuba, literally "Island Speech"), also Lewchewan or Luchuan...
The Ryukyuan religion (琉球信仰), Ryūkyū Shintō (琉球神道), Nirai Kanai Shinkō (ニライカナイ信仰), or Utaki Shinkō (御嶽信仰) is the indigenous belief system of the Ryukyu...
Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan (Japanese: 日琉語族, romanized: Nichiryū gozoku), sometimes also Japanic, is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in...
parties, festivals. The sanshin is held in great respect among the Ryukyuanculture, and is often viewed as an instrument that carries the voice of the...
Ryukyuan assimilation policies are a series of practices aimed at the Ryukyuan people with the intent of assimilating them into Japanese culture and identity...
in the 1702 version of Ryukyu Kuniezu. The ancestry of the modern-day Ryukyuan people is disputed. One theory claims that the earliest inhabitants of...
Ryukyu New Year is a traditional New Year in the Ryukyu Islands (the Okinawa Prefecture and the Amami Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan). Japan fully...
the Ryūkyūan people that spiritual power is the domain of women. The roles of women in Okinawan society and the ritual traditions of the Ryūkyūan religion...
because of the systematic attempt on the part of Japan to eliminate Ryukyuanculture, including the language, religion, and cultural practices. Okinawa...
literary culture Sinophone world Sino-xenic vocabulary Chinese influence on Korean culture Chinese influence on Japanese cultureRyukyuanculture Baiyue...
Ryukyuan Americans are Americans who are fully or partially of Ryukyuan descent. The vast majority of them trace their family history to the Okinawa Islands...
hands of Ryukyuan (mainly Okinawan) women. The term comes from Okinawan hajichi, literally "needle thrusting", in turn from Proto-Ryukyuan *pazuki <...
1879. It was ruled as a tributary state of imperial Ming China by the Ryukyuan monarchy, who unified Okinawa Island to end the Sanzan period, and extended...
various aspects of Ryukyuanculture and history, including festivals held on remote islands, the noro and yuta figures of Ryukyuan religion, the region's...
Ahabushi) is an Ryukyuan folk song native to the Yanbaru region of Okinawa Island, Japan. It is sung in the Kunigami language, one of the six Ryukyuan languages...
where the tortoise's head would have been and where the tombstone is. The Ryukyuan version has the same overall shape and layout, but on a much greater scale...
fauna in a number of bright colours. Bingata is worn during traditional Ryukyuan festivals and traditional arts performances. Bingata dates from the Ryūkyū...
narrative traditional Ryūkyūan dance. Kumi odori or Kumi wudui means "combination dance" or "ensemble dance". Originating in the Ryūkyūan capital of Shuri...
Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu" represents more than 500 years of Ryukyuan history, specifically from the 12th to the 17th century. On November 30...
additional branches, the latter perhaps the most divergent of all. The Ryukyuan languages of Okinawa Prefecture and the southern islands of Kagoshima Prefecture...
The Southern Ryukyuan languages (南琉球語群, Minami Ryūkyū gogun) form one of two branches of the Ryukyuan languages. They are spoken on the Sakishima Islands...
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