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沖縄戦の記憶と向き合う「集団自決」写真展


#Okinawa #Ireinohi #沖縄 #慰霊の日

平和の詩に込めた思い「ひとりでも多くの人に伝えたい」


#Okinawa #Ireinohi #沖縄 #慰霊の日

たどる記憶つなぐ平和#22「一家全滅から考える」2017年6月23日(再放送)


#Okinawa #Ireinohi #沖縄 #慰霊の日

2025年7月4日(金)~7月6日(日)桜坂劇場 20周年感謝祭 / 那覇市・桜坂劇場


Mon ciné préféré a vingt ans !#Okinawa #Naha #Sakurazaka #沖縄 #那覇 #桜坂劇場
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The #EuropeanArchaeologyDays at last !
Since I’m a sad #archaeologist trapped in an office today, I’ll send photographs of past surveys in the northern #Yanbaru woods. And since it’s friday, it will count as #FootPathFriday as well !
This is from a survey in february 2020, probably the most productive we ever had in Yanbaru. Since I’m a contractor, I am not allowed to give the exact location and I wiped the photograph properties.
#EADays #JEArchéo #JEA2025 #Okinawa @archaeodons

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@jannem
i'd like to think i do not handle them at all 😣
we're supposed to only enter yanbaru from december to march, but with the delays on the contractor's side to obtain entry permits and all, we're often there until april or even may… i wear long boots, stomp my feet while i walk, and am really good at spotting snakes when everyone else just passes by. unfortunately, when it happens i'm so frightened i can't speak so i grab the person closest to the snake and run…
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@jannem
…then other members of the team that i consider completely insane come and look at the snake, and use their machete or other tool to throw it away…
we mostly encounter hime-habu, and everyone is 「it's allright it's not deadly」but all i can think is that i really do not want to walk the 5 kilometers of mountain back with a snake bite, deadly or not.
i also always carry a 「habu knock」spray, even though i'm not sure it would be really useful in the mountain…
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@jannem
…we're also at least three in one team (generally more) : one who gets bitten, one who stays with the one who got bitten, and one who runs to a place with phone reception to call help (and say what ? 「come, we're in the middle of yanbaru, i hope you're good at finding path」 ?)
it is incredibly surprising how bad people are at spotting snakes, even when you point at them saying 「there, there inside the leaves」. i'm very good at snakes and wild boars.
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If you're interested in what Yanbaru surveys are like, I made a thread last year for the #EuropeanArchaeologyDays :
archaeo.social/@berangere444/1…
detailing what we do and what we find.
Et en français :
archaeo.social/@berangere444/1…
#JEArchéo #JEA2025 #EADays
#Okinawa @archaeodons
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Second day of the #EuropeanArchaeologyDays #JEarchéo #JEA2025 i'll be live tooting the lecture about #indigo production in Okinawa by Yukari Ōwan. although we do excavate old indigo jars in archaeological context, the lecture is more ethnologically focused, so i'll use the hashtag #yanbaruindigo to keep the #archaeology hashtag clean (i already clustered it yesterday with my historical path pictures…). mute #yanbaruindigo if you don't like #ethnology 😁

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#yanbaruindigo 「mud-indigo」
during the ryukyu kingdom, indigo was produced in every village
after the satsuma invasion, satsuma forbids the exportation of ryukyu indigo (they produced some themselves) but people went on producing it for the kingdoms purpose.
at the end of 19th century beginning 20th century, introduction of very cheap indian indigo and chemical indigo and ryukyu indigo can't compete…
after ww2, there were
only 3 producers left but from there conservation efforts start.
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#yanbaruindigo in legends, it is said that it comes from izumi in motobu, by chance with a guy who had his hand coloured black by touching indigo leaves.
in1477, there is a record of korean travellers who visited ryukyu and talk about ryukyu indigo. 「making cloth without insects」「colouring it indigo-blue」
that's fun they consider making cloth without insect (=not silk) as strange 😁
after the satsuma invasion, there are many documents about indigo 「let us sell it」「no way」「ow, just alittle bit 」
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@jannem
can't be sure without looking at the document again, but it seems they talked first about the cloth (布), that was a no-insect-involved cloth before they talked about colouring this cloth blue. the bashofu can be really high quality, so they might have wanted to say 「look at that quality and it's not even silk !」 however the 「no-insect-cloth」expression was fun 😁
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#yanbaruindigo 「no way」ad lib.
there are also ryukyuan records of satsuma administrators coming in ryukyu and buying indigo. not sure *they*recorded it in their official trip reports 😁
the word mud-indigo was coined by people from kagoshima in 1888, and it has a bad image, and even nowadays producers in motobu will yell at you if you use the word, you have to say tama-ai (ball indigo). i didn't know. i'll stop using mud-indigo. maybe i should rewrite my old reports 😓
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#yanbaruindigo ryukyu indigo is really well suited for growing in the narrow and wet valleys of kunigami and kunigami has long been a leader of production (second : yaeyama)
then after the annexation of the kingdom by japan, the former noble people who worked for the government loose their job and go to kunigami-motobu and make indigo (makes more money than normal agriculture).
then, indian and chemical indigo arrives and that's the beginning of the end.
in 1932, the producers refuse to die
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#yanbaruindigo (pun intended) and decide to create 3000 more indigo jars, yeah !
there were about 200 jars until then, it still represented as much value as the sugar cane production in okinawa.
but well, then there's the war, everyone dies and there are 20 producers left. in 1965, only 3 left.
in 1969, only 1. in 1973 conservation programmes start. indigo is still produced in okinawa nowadays. there are many people too who produce only what they need for their personal use.
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#yanbaruindigo in 1874 the jaranese publish a book「the correct way to produce indigo」 but we don't know if it was really followed. 1888 a japanese writes a book about ryukyu indigo production. a meiji 20 book has recently been found in bad state of conservation, talking about ryukyu indigo as well. it is being restaured now.
the 1874 book gives very technical instruction about the soil, the depth of the planting holes, the agricultural techniques to protect the plants…
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#yanbaruindigo it is important to make shade for the plants.
we are at the season when the leaves are put in the jars, so, if you go to izumi now you can see the leaves-in-jar.
the book also talks about the indigo production techniques, including production of lime by burning fresh coral.
the book of meiji 21 precises that ryukyu indigo is not produced in japan. it explains the agricultural techniques and production techniques.
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#yanbaruindigo the book says the indigo is produced in ceramic jars, not in what we call indigo-jars in okinawa and that are just veryvery large semi-spherical holes in the ground. that's dubious if you want my opinion, found so many indigo-jars in yanbaru, but no ceramic ones…
the new book in bad state that yukari found also talks about production methods.
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#yanbaruindigo there is another book (5 books) of taisho 4 talking about okinawan plants and there is a part about ryukyu indigo.
concerning the current production.
the indigo jars are called ee-chibu, iee-chibu. the 「tama-chibu」are the jars to store the indigo balls once finished, transfered from the indigo jars. they are smaller. i found some in yanbaru as well.
they are numerous in places with good water supply, above the terraced fields because the water is drained from the jars and sent
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#yanbaruindigo to the fields below.
she now shows us pictures of indigo jars in mount yonaha. really exactly the same i found in our yanbaru surveys.
she shows us pics of currents indigo jars and tama-jars, that are exactly the same, but in concrete.
the new young people who start indigo production just restaure the old indigo jars that are everywhere instead of creating new ones. but they only produce half the quantity each time so the jars are half empty.
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#yanbaruindigo there are also new shape squared jars. with electric mixers.
they are shaped as indian jars. the indians do not add lime, that's a different process.
some people also use metallic water tanks as indigo jars.
some people (many people) use plastic buckets to produce for their own use. ah, yukari does it too, she has a small indigo field 😁
once you have the tama-indigo, there are still several operation to be able to use it as dye.
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#yanbaruindigo most of the producers are still doing everything by hand.
the different books do not agree on the quantity of leaves, the quantity of lime, some talk about coral, some don't. they don't agree on the periods for taking the leaves or time necessary for the production…
very reliable sources…
to end she shows us a film of indigo production in an indigo jar.
no questions today, no time (>_<)
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@jannem
oh there is a luxe-market for it, you can be 100% sure that the blue modern tunics and blouses worn by all those old ladies at traditional danse or kumi-odori events are ryukyu indigo. some are bashofu, but there are a lot in linen too that may be more affordable.
and quite a lot of people at the conference were wearing what seemed to be hand made blue clothes, not sure if they made them themselves or if they bought them at workshops in motobu.

Les archéologues dévoilent un nouveau pan de l’histoire du Château de Caen (Calvados)


#INRAP #Archéologie #Caen

L’histoire millénaire du château de Caen éclairée par les fouilles archéologiques (Calvados)


#INRAP #Archéologie #Caen

辺土名漁港沖でサンゴの産卵/去年 海水温上昇で壊滅的被害も/満月の前日 神秘な光景


#Okinawa #Hentona #Coral #沖縄 #辺土名 #サンゴ

Pourquoi croit-on que les Étrusques viennent d’Italie ?


#Etrusques #Archéologie

第23回 週刊首里城 「『見せる復興』の舞台・素屋根見学エリア終了へ」


#Okinawa #Shuri #ShuriCastle #沖縄 #首里 #首里城

めざせ甲子園!美里「単独チームとして最初で最後の夏」


#Okinawa #Misato #Koushien #沖縄 #美里 #高校野球

L'épave d'un navire marchand du XVIe siècle découverte au large de Ramatuelle à plus de 2500 mètres de fond


#Archéologie

Journées européennes de l'archéologie : "Nous redécouvrons aujourd'hui l'âge de bronze"


#JEA2025 #JEArchéo #Archéologie #AgeDuBronze

めざせ甲子園!沖縄尚学「甲子園30勝に挑む夏」


#Okinawa #OkinawaShogaku #Koushien #沖縄 #沖縄尚学 #高校野球

沖縄科学技術大学院大学(OIST)の職員が業務委託先企業から約2億円不正受給


#Okinawa #OIST #沖縄

楽園の海 石垣島「サンゴの産卵」後編


#Okinawa #Ishigaki #Coral #沖縄 #石垣 #サンゴ

めざせ甲子園!エナジック「ノーサイン野球で新たな歴史を」


#Okinawa #Enagic #Koushien #沖縄 #エナジック #高校野球

Une immense villa gallo-romaine mise au jour près d'Auxerre


#Archéologie #Auxerre

映画「木の上の軍隊」沖縄先行公開


#Okinawacinema #沖縄映画

2025年6月21日(土)・22日(日)糸満端午市(イトマン タンゴイチ)/ 糸満市場いとま~る


#Okinawa #Itoman #沖縄 #糸満

宜野湾市の沖縄戦を学ぶ展示 宜野湾市立博物館


#Okinawa #Ginowan #沖縄 #宜野湾

RCFK 2025 : 10es Rencontres des chercheurs francophones du Kansai


sciencescope.org/events-2/rcfk…
#RCFK2025

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All right people of Mastodon, what have you planned for the #EuropeanArchaeologyDays this year ? #JEArchéo #JEA2025
As it very often happened those last years, I'm not currently in the field, so no live-tooting of my day as an archaeologist on the Friday, because it would be a dozen photographs of me staring at a computer screen... On the Saturday, I have a conference live-tooting planned, but it's ethnology [...]
#Archaeology #Archéologie
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[...] (indigo dyeing in Yanbaru) and not archaeology (although I surveyed pre-war indigo jars in Yanbaru so I might be able to do something about that)
And nothing planned for the Sunday yet.
I'm ready to hear any request about #Okinawan archaeology and see what I can do to please. Or I'll go and live-toot-visit Katsuren gusuku, as I said I would do last year before I changed my plan and went to Zakimi [...]
#Okinawa #Ryukyu
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in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂

a quick follow-up: sorry if I haven’t had time yet to work on the subs but it’s been a super hectic time with travel. I can’t work today (home alone with my child) and tomorrow we drive 500km. I have this on my to do list for Wednesday morning.

Thank you again for all your hard work and sorry for the delay 😅

Archéopages 50 - Énergies


#Archéopages #Archéologie #INRAP

Des Gaulois aux Carolingiens dans le sud de la France : Travaux d’archéologues et d’historiens


#Archéologie #INRAP