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Formation of Culture and Movement of People in Prehistoric Ryukyu-With focus on the mutual human- geographical relation between islands
[in Japanese]
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Kinoshita Naoko
… This paper discussed its characteristics, combining Naoichi KOKUBU's division of the islands into three cultural areas, and a classification of the relation among the islands based on their geographical relation to their cultural bases Kyushu or Taiwan respectively and on their mutual distance being with eyesight or not. … The Yaeyama archipelago "cannot be seen from Taiwan but Taiwan is within eyesight from Yaeyama", but it was cut off culturally over a long period of time; …
Kumamoto journal of culture and humanities 103, 13-27, 2012-03-10
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