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Kamuiyaki Ware
, from Tokunoshima language, Tokunoshima ''kamïyaki'', is grey stoneware produced in Tokunoshima, the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, from the 11th century to the early 14th century, or from the late Heian period to the Kamakura period. Kiln sites Kamuiyaki ware were excavated from various sites in Amami, Okinawa Islands, Okinawa and Yaeyama Islands, Yaeyama. However, it remained a mystery for a long time where they were produced. Prior to the discovery of kiln sites, ''kamuiyaki'' were known as or ''Sue ware, sue''-like ware. The first kiln site was discovered by two local researchers, Yotsumoto Nobuhiro and Gi Norikazu, in 1983. It was located around a pond (, ) in Isen, Kagoshima, Isen Town of Tokunoshima, after which ''kamuiyaki'' was named. The English spelling "''kamuiyaki''" is a transliteration of katakana "." The sequence "ui" does not represent a diphthong but a short central vowel /ï/ of the Tokunoshima language, local dialects. Thus the spelling ''kam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokunoshima Language
The Tokunoshima language ( ''Shimaguchi'' or ''Shimayumiita''), also Toku-no-Shima, is a dialect cluster spoken on Tokunoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture of southwestern Japan. It is part of the Amami–Okinawan languages, which are part of the Japonic languages Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan () is a language family comprising Japanese language, Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands. The family is universally accepted by linguists, and sig .... Dialects Okamura (2007) posits two divisions of Tokunoshima: Kametsu–Amagi in the north and Isen in the south. Kametsu is the traditional politico-cultural center of the island. It has been a center of distributions of new lexical traits, some of which were not confined in Tokunoshima Town but spread to Amagi Town in the northeast and, less frequently, to Isen. The dialects of Isen are considered more conservative by the speakers. Folk terminology According to Okamura T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |