The Human Pavilion Incident

Japanese: 人類館事件 - じんるいかんじけん

From March to July 1903 (Meiji 36), a show tent called the "Academic Anthropology Hall" was set up near the site of the Industrial Exposition held in Osaka, where, under the pretext of academic research materials, two "Ryukyuan" prostitutes were "displayed" under the name "Ladies of the Ryukyus" along with "Ainu," "Taiwanese aboriginals," "Koreans," "Javanese," "Turks," "Africans," etc. The April 11th issue of the "Ryukyu Shimpo" of the same year stated, "The fact that we have been selected to be from our prefecture together with the aboriginal North Sea Ainu of Taiwan and others is because we are viewed as aboriginal Ainu.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1903年(明治36)3月から7月まで，大阪で開催された勧業博覧会の会場周辺に，〈学術人類館〉と称する見世物小屋が設置され，学術研究資料の名目で〈アイヌ〉〈台湾生蕃〉〈朝鮮人〉〈ジャワ人〉〈トルコ人〉〈アフリカ人〉などとともに，〈琉球人〉の遊女2人が〈琉球の貴婦人〉と銘打って〈展示〉された。同年4月11日付の〈《琉球新報》〉は〈特に台湾の生蕃北海のアイヌ等と共に本県人を撰みたるは是れ我を生蕃アイヌ視したるものなり。

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