Book
A brief history of early Okinawa based on the Omoro Soshi
Honpo Shoseki Press • Tokyo, Japan • Published In 1987 • Pages:
By: Sakihara, Mitsugu.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The 'Omoro Soshi,' or the 'Anthology of Poems and Sentiments.' is a collection of songs, poems, and prayers compiled during Okinawa's Golden Age, the period following the island's unification in 1422 and ending with the invasion by the Japanese warlord Satsuma in 1609. The 22-volume work lists a total of 1,552 poems. Sakihara has selected 70 poems on the subjects of myths, village life, and the urban life of the gentry. Some specific titles are 'Rice Ear Ceremony,' 'Dancing Priestess,' 'In Praise of the Sunrise,' 'Launching Ceremony,' 'Building Granaries,' 'Castle of Ezo,' 'Trade at Lower Ishiki,' 'Springtime on the Coast of Hyakuna,' and 'Mounted Young Lord.' Most poems are brief, not more than 20 lines. Sakihara does an excellent job annotating and commenting on each poem to reveal the life and times of the period, as well as, provide clues to Okinawa prehistory.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Glossary
- History
- Verbal arts
- Mythology
- Texts in the speaker's language
- Texts translated into english
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Okinawans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard;2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not Specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1100-1600
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Okinawa, Japan
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Mitsugu Sakihara
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-217; 229-245)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ryukyuans