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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: brief history of early Okinawa based on the Omoro sōshi
  name:
    name part: Sakihara, Mitsugu
    name part: 1928-2001
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Curry, Stewart
    name part: 1965-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: hiu
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 181 pages : map ; 23 cm
  abstract: "Mitsugu Sakihara introduced the English-speaking world to the wonders of the Omoro Sōshi, a collection of Old Okinawan poetry, when he published the original version of A Brief History of Early Okinawa Based on the Omoro Sōshi in 1987. The omoro poems, numbering some 1500 or so in total, were compiled between 1532 and 1610, the Golden Age of Okinawan (and Ryukyuan) political, economic, and cultural wherewithal. The poems offer, through the careful analysis that Sakihara employed, some challenges to the sanitized official histories compiled during the period, providing insights into the "real-life" circumstances of the people, places, and (sometimes jarringly violent) actions from the early history of the late island kingdom. Details about historical figures emerge, encomiums are issued regarding rulers and the seats they ruled from, life and daily activities in the villages are addressed, the role of the noro priestesses in the national life is celebrated, ships are launched to far-flung places, and prayers are offered; the whole of that rich historical period comes to life in this work by an esteemed scholar. This reissue of Sakihara's classic work comes on the heels of the recent scholarship that builds on the themes that he addressed more than three decades ago. Those, of course, are not to be discounted, but A Brief History reminds us of the debt we owe to the pioneering work of Mitsugu Sakihara"--
  table of contents: Introduction -- Creation Myths -- Life in and about the Village -- Life of the Ruling Class -- Conclusion.
  note: Mitsugu Sakihara ; edited by Stewart Curry.
  note: Reissue of: A brief history of early Okinawa based on the Omoro Sōshi. Tokyo: Honpo Shoseki Press, 1987.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ja---
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Omoro sōshi
  subject:
    geographic: Okinawa Island (Japan)
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Okinawa (Japon : Île)
    topic: Histoire
  classification: DS895.R97 S23 2024
  classification: 952/.29402
  identifier: 9781952460036
  identifier: 1952460034
  identifier: 2024000518
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: HU/DLC
    record creation date: 240117
    record change date: 20250318215259.3
    record identifier: in00005464026
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng