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Okina may refer to: ʻOkina, a letter used in some Polynesian languages, visually resembling a left single quotation mark; Okina (翁?) or Kashiwazaki Nenji (柏崎 念至), a character from the Rurouni Kenshin manga series; Okina, Spain, a village in the Basque Country; Okina (翁), a particular Japanese Noh, combining play/dance with Shinto ...
At first, Japanese given names were often given when they entered school. For this reason, given names were informally called "school names" (学校名). Warabi-naa continued to be used unofficially until the early Shōwa period. [1] With increasing contacts with Japan, many Okinawans felt it inconvenient to use their alien-looking surnames.
Literal meaning Notes Hawaiian: ʻokina: Separator; cutting; breaking The ʻokina is often replaced in computer publications by the grave accent (`), the left single quotation mark (‘), or the apostrophe ('), especially when the correct typographical mark (ʻ) is not available. Samoan: koma liliu "Inverted comma"—inverted (liliu) comma (koma)
Traditional Japanese theatre is among the oldest theatre traditions in the world. Traditional theatre includes Noh , a spiritual drama, and its comic accompaniment kyōgen ; kabuki , a dance and music theatrical tradition; bunraku , puppetry; and yose , a spoken drama.
Okinawa Island. Okinawa (沖縄) is a name with multiple referents. The endonym refers to Okinawa Island in southwestern Japan.Today it can cover some surrounding islands (i.e., Okinawa Islands) and, more importantly, can refer to Okinawa Prefecture, a much larger administrative division of Japan, although the people from the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands still feel a strong sense of otherness to ...
Japanese Jōmon influences are dominant on the Okinawa Islands, although clay vessels on the Sakishima Islands have a commonality with those in Taiwan. [note 1] The first mention of the word Ryukyu was written in the Book of Sui. [note 2] Okinawa was the Japanese word identifying the islands, first seen in the biography of Jianzhen, written in 779.
Shisa (Japanese: シーサー, Hepburn: shīsā, Okinawan: シーサー, romanized: shiisaa) is a traditional Ryukyuan cultural artifact and decoration derived from Chinese guardian lions, often seen in similar pairs, resembling a cross between a lion and a dog, from Okinawan mythology. Shisa are wards, believed to protect from some evils.
During the Edo period, onmitsu (the term meaning a spy or an undercover detective) acted as secret agents in security and espionage functions, mainly intelligence and information gathering, sometimes with aid of kobushikata, small groups of lower-class agents posing as mobile manual laborers and working under Iga ninja supervisors. The oniwaban ...