"Road on the Sea" - Kaijo no Michi

Japanese: 《海上の道》 - かいじょうのみち

…In recent years, the importance of air routes has also increased, and as of 1997, airports have been developed in two Osumi Islands, five Amami Islands, four Okinawa Islands, six Sakishima Islands, and two Daito Islands. Folklorist Kunio Yanagita called these islands the "sea route" that transmitted southern culture to the Japanese mainland. Ryukyu [Hattori Nobuhiko]. …

From Kunio Yanagita

...He also published "Meiji Taisho History: Social Conditions" (1931), which explained the history of modern times by grasping the changes in daily life as a social history and incorporating the sense of life and consciousness, and "Things Before Cotton" (1939), which clarified the changes in food, clothing and shelter from the perspective of the people who enjoyed them. In his later years, he was particularly interested in the route by which Japanese people came to the Japanese archipelago, and compiled his argument that they reached the archipelago from the south via Okinawa in "Roads on the Sea" (1961). Most of his works are collected in "The Complete Collection of Yanagita Kunio" (31 volumes in total, 5 supplementary volumes). ...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "The Sea Road" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また近年は航空路の重要性も増しており，97年現在大隅諸島2，奄美諸島5，沖縄諸島4，先島諸島6，大東諸島2の空港が整備されてきている。民俗学者の柳田国男はこれらの島々を，南方の文化を日本本土に伝えた〈海上の道〉と呼んだ。琉球【服部信彦】。…

【柳田国男】より

…また日常生活の変化を世相史として把握し，生活感覚や意識を組み込んだ近代の歴史を説いた《明治大正史･世相篇》(1931)，衣食住の変遷をそれを享受する人々の感覚から明らかにする《木綿以前の事》(1939)等を出した。晩年には，日本人の日本列島へ渡来してきたコースに最大の関心をよせ，南方から沖縄を経て列島に達したという主張を《海上の道》(1961)にまとめた。彼の著作の大部分は《定本柳田国男集》(全31巻，別巻5巻)に収録されている。…

※「《海上の道》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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