Showing posts with label taketomi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taketomi. Show all posts
Monday, September 20, 2021
Flowers of Taketomi Island
Friday, June 18, 2021
Taketomi Beaches
Taketomi
Friday, March 12, 2021
Taketomi Island Village
Taketomi 竹富島
Taketomi is a small island a 10 minute ferry ride from Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture. The small village on the island of about 300 inhabitants is registered as a Group of Historic Buildings a classification I refer to as Preservation District for simplicity. It is one of only two such districts in Okinawa. For other preservation districts I have covered in this blog please click here.
The defining features of the village architecture are the stone walls surrounding each property, the low, single storey homes, and the tile roofs. However, the tile roofs are a very modern addition, the first one on Taketomi not being until 1905.
Labels:
okinawa,
preservation district,
taketomi
Monday, December 14, 2020
Masks of Taketomi Island
Taketomi
Taketomi Island is a small island just off Ishigaki Island in the chain of islands now called Okinawa. It is most well known for the water buffalo-drawn carts (click here) that take tourist around the small village which is a preservation district.
Being a mask-maker myself, though admittedly somewhat lapsed, I was intrigued by the masks in the local folklore museum that was housed in the villages small buddhist temple.Saturday, July 6, 2019
Taketomi Island Water Buffalo
At several places around the Okinawan Islands you can ride in a cart drawn by Water Buffalo, but the most well known is I think the island of Taketomi.
The water buffalo was domesticated about 5,000 years ago in India and about 4,000 years ago in southern China, which is probably where Okinawa got them from.
Taketomi Island is quite small with just a few hundred inhabitants living in the one village of Taeketomi, a Histroical Preservation District of Historic Buildings with traditional streets of sand lined with stone walls.
Almost every house has a red tile roof, but that is a modern phenomenon that started in 1905 because traditionally commoners were not allowed tile roofs, rather they were thatched.
Labels:
Arata Isozaki,
okinawa,
taketomi,
water buffalo
Monday, September 17, 2018
More Shisa of Taketomi Island
Shisa are the magical creatures found on rooves and gates all over Okinawa. Similar to Japanese komainu, though found most often on homes.
Very much "folk" artifacts, though also made by artisans, most are somewhat comical in appearance.
All these posted here are from Taketomi Island, the small island known mostly for its ox-carts.
Like komainu they are often found in male-female pairs, and in different postures.
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Shisa of Taketomi
Taketomi Island is a small island of only 5 square kilometers with about 300 inhabitants in the Yaeyama Islands, now part of Okinawa Prefecture.
It's known mostly as a tourist destination for its traditional Ryukyuan village with stone walls, tile roofs, and water buffalo carts.
The shisa on Taketomi were funkier and more whimsical than those on the main island of Okinawa, reflecting a folksier culture.
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