#Yaeyama

[tre-rane]

Jungle hiking in tropical rainforest of Iriomote Island, Japan, Okinawa by Ippei & Janine Via Flickr: Iriomote Island, Okinawa, Japan Iriomote Island is the second largest island of Okinawa. Largely undeveloped, 90% of the island is covered by dense jungle. Iriomote Island belongs to the Yaeyama Island group which boasts of paradisical beaches, untouched tropical rainforests, lush mangrove rivers and one of the world's largest healthy coral reef systems. > Islands of Japan Check out the beautiful Japanese islands that we recommend: ippei-janine.com/travel-japan-islands/

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[hi-technique]

#WHITE BEACH #beach #sand #sea #water #okinawa #yaeyama #taketomi #leica #leicam11 #voigtlander #nokton75mmf15

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Hàng năm, vào ngày 11 tháng 11, những người độc thân trên khắp thế giới kỷ niệm việc không còn liên kết với nhau vào Ngày độc thân – ban đầu là một ngày lễ của Trung Quốc đó là được coi là phản đề của ngày lễ tình nhân. Một ngày dành cho những người độc thân dành để rèn luyện lòng yêu thương và đánh giá cao bản thân, còn cách nào tốt hơn là dành cho một chuyến du lịch một mình? (more…)

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20220601 It has been open for 10 years today. Here is my Another Sky, Taketomi Island. I wish I could have toasted with the members at that time. Many thanks!! #20120601 #taketomiisland #yaeyama #okinawa #japan #20220601 (at 星のや竹富島 - HOSHINOYA Taketomi Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeQ_ZkmPww7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[tropic-havens]

Iriomote, Yaeyama, Japan

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[workersolidarity]

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MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE ROCKS TAIWAN, TSUNAMI WARNINGS ISSUED FOR JAPAN

📹 A massive 7.5 magnitude earthquake rocks Taiwan today, prompting Japan's Meteorological agency to issue tsunami warnings.

The agency told residents of Okinawa Island, Miyakojima Island and Yaeyama Island to immediately evacuate, warning of waves up to 3 meters (9.8ft).

A little while ago, Xinhua News Agency reported tsunami waves of 30cm had reached the Japanese island of Yonaguni.

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[yoga-onion]

[Photo above: Banyan tree in Shuri Castle Park]

Legends and myths about trees

Forest spirits and natives (5)

Kijimuna – Mischievous red-haired spectres

Kijimuna are legendary small tree spirits from the Okinawa Islands in Japan, who live in trees (generally old banyan trees). They are said to look about 3 or 4 years old and have red hair.

Another name for the kijimuna is bungaya, which means roughly large-headed. The Kijimuna are known to be very mischievous, playing pranks and tricking humans. One of their best-known tricks is to lie upon a person's chest, making them unable to move or breathe such as sleep paralysis. Even though the Kijimuna are tricksters, they have been known to make friends with humans.

They are skilled fish catchers and only eat the left or both eyes of the fish they catch. Therefore, if you become friends with a Kijimuna, you can always get a fish and become rich. They are good at diving and fishing and catch a lot of fish in seconds. But all the fish they catch have no eyes. They can also run around on the water surface and can stand on the water while carrying people.

They are extremely hatred of hot pot lids, octopus, chickens and human farts, and it is forbidden to let them near the Kijimuna. They also die (or are forced to move to another tree), if a nail is driven into the tree in which they live. They will take terrible retribution, including murder, against anyone who breaks these prohibitions.

Nevertheless, as long as one do not break these prohibitions, they are basically harmless to humans, and many lores say that they are "good neighbours" with humans.

[History of Ryukyu Islands (collective name for Amami Islands, Okinawa Islands, Miyako Archipelago and Yaeyama Archipelago)]

The Ryukyu Islands are known to have been inhabited by humans for about 32,000 years.

The Ryukyu Kingdom was a monarchy, existed in the southwestern islands of Japan for about 450 years, from 15th century to 19th century. It developed through diplomacy and trade with China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asian countries, and the castle of the Ryukyu dynasty, Shuri Castle, was the political, economic and cultural centre of its maritime kingdom. In the late 19th century, the Japanese Government, dispatched troops to oust King Shoutai from Shuri Castle and proclaimed the establishment of Okinawa Prefecture (Ryukyu Disposition). Here, the Ryukyu Kingdom was destroyed.

Genetic studies have shown that populations in the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa Islands, Miyako Archipelago and Yaeyama Archipelago) have no direct genetic link to mainland China or Taiwanese populations and have identical paternal lines to mainland Japan, and nuclear DNA analysis in 2018 showed that genetically, Ryukyuans are the most closely related, followed by mainland Japanese, from the Ainu (Ref) perspective.

Furthermore, in 2021, a paper on archaeogenetics published in the journal Nature stated that DNA analysis of prehistoric human bones excavated from the Nagabaka (lit. Long graveyard) site in Miyakojima City showed that they were "100% pure Jomon", a research finding that indicates that prehistoric archipelago people came from the Okinawa Islands.

木にまつわる伝説・神話

森の精霊たちと原住民 (5)

キジムナー 〜 いたずら好きな赤毛の妖怪たち

キジムナーは、日本の沖縄諸島に伝わる伝説の小さな木の精霊で、樹木 (一般的にはガジュマルの老木) の中に住んでいる。見た目は3、4歳くらいで、赤い髪をしていると言われている。

キジムナーの別名は「ブンガヤ」であり、「頭の大きい」という意味である。キジムナーは非常にいたずら好きで、いたずらをして人間をだますことで知られている。最もよく知られているのは、人の胸の上に横たわり、身動きや呼吸をできなくさせる「金縛り」だ。そんなキジムナーだが、人間と仲良くなることもある。

魚捕りが巧みであり、しかも捕った魚の左目または両目だけしか食べない。その為、キジムナーと仲良くなれば魚をいつでも貰え、漁運に恵まれる。海に潜って漁をするのが得意であっという間に多くの魚を獲る。でも、彼らが獲った魚は全部目が無い。また、水面を駆け回ることができ、人を連れながらでも水上に立てる。

熱い鍋蓋、タコ、ニワトリ、人間のおならを極端に嫌い、それらのものをキジムナーに近付けるのは禁忌である。また住んでいる木に釘を打たれると死ぬ (或いは別の木への転居を余儀なくされるとも)。これらの禁忌を破った人間に対しては、殺害を含む恐ろしい報復を為す事も辞さない。

然し、禁忌さえ破らなければ基本的に人間には無害な存在であり、人間とは「良き隣人」であると言う伝承が多い。

[琉球諸島 (奄美群島、沖縄諸島、宮古列島、八重山列島の総称) の歴史］

琉球諸島には、約3万2千年前から人類が住んでいたことがわかっている。

15世紀から19世紀までの約450年間、日本の南西諸島に存在した君主制国家、琉球王国は、中国をはじめ日本、朝鮮、東南アジア諸国との外交・貿易を通して発展し、琉球王朝の王城、首里城はその海洋王国の政治・経済・文化の中心にあった。しかし、19世紀後半、日本政府が軍隊を派遣し首里城から国王尚泰 (しょうたい) を追放し沖縄県の設置を宣言した(琉球処分)。これによって、琉球王国は滅亡した。

遺伝子研究では、琉球列島 (沖縄諸島、宮古列島、八重山列島) の集団は、遺伝的に中国本土や台湾の集団との直接的なつながりはなく、日本本土と同一の父系を持つという研究結果や、2018年の核DNA分析から遺伝的に、アイヌ（参照）から見て琉球人が最も近縁であり、次いで日本本土人が近縁であるという研究結果が発表されている。

さらに、2021年には、宮古島市の長墓遺跡から出土した先史時代の人骨をDNA分析した結果、「100％純粋な縄文人」であったとする考古遺伝学の論文が雑誌「ネイチャー」に掲載され、先史時代の列島人が沖縄諸島から来たことを示す研究結果が発表されている。

#trees #tree legend #tree myth #kijimuna #banyan tree #tree spirit #okinawa #ryukyu islands #ryukyu kingdom #syuri castle #legend #mythology #folklore #nature #art #history

[foxpapa]

Nishi-hama - isole Yaeyama - Giappone

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[tokyogems]

had yaeyama soba for lunch with a view at nobare cafe in ishigaki island, okinawa.

石垣島ののばれカフェで絶景を前にランチ。

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[lowcountry-gothic]

Streets of Taketomi, Yaeyama Islands, Japan.

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[kuranne88]

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[fatehbaz]

it is the hime habu!

Oh cool. Thank you for the confirmation and clarification!

So I think it is true that there are 4 vipers living on Okinawa? And 2 of them are native, while another 2 are introduced?

Ovophis okinavensis (hime habu, princess viper). An endemic species in Ryuku Islands, including Okinawa.

Protobothrops flavoviridis (habu, Okinawa habu). Also an endemic species in Ryuku Islands, including Okinawa.

Non-native, introduced: Protobothrops elegans (Sakishima habu). And though it was introduced to Okinawa, it is still actually a kind of “local” snake and is an endemic species of Ryuku Islands, though it originally naturally lived in Yaeyama Islands (south of Okinawa).

Not native, introduced: Protobothrops mucrosquamatus (brown-spotted pit viper, Taiwan habu) which originally naturally lives across a large stretch of land including most of southern mainland East Asia.

Here's an English-language graphic from Okinawa Prefectural government:

(And then I think the Ryuku Islands are also home to another endemic species of Protobothrops -- P. tokarensis -- which lives in Tokara islands closer to Kyushu?)

Previously, I had read that the small Indian mongoose (Urva auropunctata) was deliberately introduced to Okinawa around 1910, to eliminate rats that fed on profitable sugar cane crops, and also to eliminate habu.

When I first saw that photo/post with the hime habu, I went off and tried to learn more about mongooses on Okinawa.

I found a cool informational/educational pamphlet kind of thing released by The Ministry of the Environment Naha Nature Conservation Office and Okinawa Prefecture Environmental Life Department.

The pamphlet explains the history of mongooses on the island, and also describes the uniqueness of Okinawa's many endangered and/or endemic species including the critically endangered Okinawa woodpecker; an endemic species of leaf turtle; an endemic subspecies of ground gecko; and many cool amphibians like the crocodile newt.

They are all threatened by the mongoose, since there were no native carnivorous mammals living in Yambaru/northern Okinawa before the mongoose arrived.

A similar fate shared by Hawai'i, Fiji, the Caribbean, and Okinawa: The introduction of mongooses to protect colonial cash crops, followed by the death of many birds, snakes, amphibians, etc.

All of those endemic and endangered island creatures of Okinawa... Consider all of that environmental damage resulting from the initial introduction of "merely" 17 mongooses.

[a-forbidden-detective]

Crossing the enemy lines

Fandom: Ron Kamonohashi Deranged Detective

Last week, an anime in the making was announced to the delight of manga readers like yours truly. This is a prequel to the first chapter, with some hints of spoilers, yet canon divergence and a mix of head canons and fan theories.

If you haven’t read it, I urge you to do it.

Trying out for the first time to join @flashfictionfridayofficial for this week’s prompt.

Totomaru Isshiki is on the run. Face, beet red and sweating, and heart racing, he turns around for a split second to check if someone is following him. Nary a soul. No one. Nothing. He walks along the coastal beach, strange that there are no divers to be seen, no beachcombers, not even the locals. The white sand, however, keeps on entering his white sneakers.

Kilometres it seems as he comes across the fields of rice where patient water buffaloes are waiting for their masters. His burner phone starts again to vibrate. In fact, it has been vibrating ever since this morning. Like a wilful child, he decides not to answer it at all.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck… fuck me!” Cursing is not particularly in his vocabulary, but at this moment, cursing at himself seems to be the only thing he can do. Paranoia grips him. Regrets. He has a lot of those. Especially if you are born in a powerful family operating in the shadows. He’s been cooped up for two days on the beautiful Yaeyama Islands. He’s walking aimlessly. The view is right—a row of Bali style lodges in the middle of luxurious jungle facing the blue waters of the ocean against the backdrop of loud yellow sunshine, verdant rice fields, temperature shooting up to more than 30 degrees, perfect for a getaway—but everything is wrong, off. Toto’s ideal vacation is without a doubt no disturbance coming from anybody, lest his own family.

The old Nokia model vibrates again. He resolves to answering it all at once. “Hi!” Toto knows the owner of that voice, Milo Moriarty.

“No greetings? Oh, you wound me, Toto. Are you enjoying the views at least? Have you been touring the whole island? You are so unreachable. It is exhausting to be ignored. Don’t try me, Toto. Don’t make me angry.”

Of course, Milo will know where he is. He has eyes and ears on everything. His omnipotence scares him, a family trait. Besides, he’s the one who kidnaps him away from the comforts of his new flat. He’s the reason he has probably lost a day prior to his arrival to the islands.

“It is not my fault to be here, Milo. I was doing my job and the next thing I knew I was on an island.” Toto is irritated that intermingles with his fear. He knows what Milo is capable of. He has seen how he destroys his enemies, witnessed what happened to those who oppose him. Yet deep inside, he knows Milo won’t dare touch a strand of his brown hair. He has other ways to punish him.

“Your job? If that’s your way of making me laugh… you only got it because you insisted of doing the right thing when you don’t even have the talent for deduction.” Loud chuckle rambles on the receiver. Toto could smother him. “The curtain rises.” Milo has the penchant for the dramatics. “Your stage is ready.”

“Ron Kamonohashi is not bothering the family. He’s suffering from depression, wallowing in his own loneliness…why do we need to lure him out?” Toto asks. He’s not used to violence so he’s resorting to a more sinister plan: befriending him, earning his trust. Milo has instructed him. He’s been taught how to mind his manners after all, all thanks to their grandmother, who is particular with etiquette by keeping the appearances of a respectable family.

“Because he’s nothing but a pest, Toto. He’s akin to a rat that needs to be eradicated. He’s an anomaly. He’s a taint.” Milo, who has taken over the family empire, means business. He can go on and on, declaring a hundred ways to destroy Ron Kamonohashi.

“He’s walled up in his room for five years, don’t you think it is punishment enough?”

“Are you backing out? Are you defying me? We have talked about this.” Milo raises his voice. Toto, shocked and defeated, tries to defuse Milo’s anger.

“All right. All right. You don’t need to be hyper. I’ll do it, okay?!” Toto assures Milo.

“Very good! Enjoy the last few hours of your holiday, Toto. Details will come to you once you are back in Tokyo.”

“Will you be there?”

“Maybe. Though I doubt it. If my schedules in London will permit me. Goodbye, Toto. I am counting on you this time.”

Toto lets out a sigh. He packs the personal stuff he has, goes to the terrace, and watches the sunset. Very soon he will meet the descendant of Sherlock Holmes. Not long now.

—

Expanded version now on AO3.

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[lgchiro]

plotting call for event !!

first off, i am very slow at writing, so i apologize for the replies sitting in my drafts right now. ty for being patient with me. 😭 and please like this post if you want to work something out for the mission !!

for TRAINEE MISSION 014: despite loving to travel, hiro hasn't been to half the destinations on the cruise, so he is stoked for the trip. he is especially looking forward to telling people about his home country and maybe helping some people get around who aren't as good with japanese. more than one thread can be per challenge, and plot points/ideas are under the read more:

SPECIALIZED WORKSHOPS

Intro to J-Pop part 1 (and 2?) - @lgcakio Korean Calligraphy, Voice Acting, Traditional Tea Ceremony

VACATION TIME

showing people around any of the cities in japan and helping them be better at communicating in japanese

KAGOSHIMA: Kagoshima Aquarium — learn fun facts about fishies with Hiro! @lgckyungsoo

NAGASAKI: Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum — learn what "good art" really is from Hiro! (he doesn't actually have tons of art history education, per say, but he's certainly a snob for fine art.)

SHANGHAI (PART 1): Yu Garden (Yuyuan), Zhujiajao Ancient Town.

SHANGHAI (PART 2): follow an overeager and energetic Hiro as he tries to ride every single ride at Disney. @lgcshion

ISHIGAKI ISLAND: Tamatorizaki Observatory & Yaeyama Palm Tree Grove.

HUALIEN: Nanbin Park, Qixingtan Beach

KAOHSIUNG: 85 Sky Tower, Kahsiung Museum of Fine Arts

FREE TIME / OTHER ACTIVITES

DAY 3: platonic snuggle time during the Studio Ghibli marathon

FREE TIME: laser tag, pools and sundecks, rock climbing wall, mini golf course, jogging track, tennis court

#⋆ ┊ 〔 OOC ! 〕 #⋆ ┊ 〔 PLOTTING CALL ! 〕

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