• Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Omoro Sōshi (おもろさうし, Okinawan: Umuru U-Sōshi, Northern Ryukyuan: おもろおさうし Omoro O-Saushi) is a compilation of ancient...
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  • Lake in Bolivia Omoro-machi, a neighborhood of Naha, Okinawa, Japan Omoro Sōshi, a compilation of ancient poems and songs from Okinawa and the Amami...
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  • swordsman of the Shinsengumi Girls' Generation, or SoShi, a South Korean girl group Omoro Sōshi, a compilation of ancient poems and songs from Okinawa...
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    Kingdom, and was first recorded in the 16th century, particularly in the Omoro Sōshi anthology. There is no agreement on the subgrouping of the varieties...
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    1916, 1942, 1944, 2000. [in Japanese, his representative work] Revised Omoro Sōshi, 1925, Minamishima, danwakai. [in Japanese] Ryūkyū no Hōgen [dialects...
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  • half-brother of Satto, and had the title Kaniman Aji (金満按司). According to Omoro Sōshi, he was a lord (Aji) of Oza (宇座), Yuntanza. The first Chinese envoy visited...
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    become vassals to the daimyō of the Satsuma Domain. 1623 – Completion of Omoro Sōshi. 1650 – Completion of Chūzan Seikan. 1724 – Completion of Chūzan Seifu...
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  • the song part of the Omoro Sōshi. Some songs were accompanied by notes that were written in Written Japanese. Because the Omoro Sōshi was enigmatic even...
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    (good commander of Iso), who appears in the archaic poem collection Omoro Sōshi, is usually identified as Eiso. According to Sai Taku's edition of the...
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    (くすくつみつけて); apparently, gusuku in these phrases refers to stone walls. In the Omoro Sōshi (16th–17th centuries), the term gusuku is written as "くすく," or "ぐすく"...
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  • Accordingly, this garden collects plants that are described in the Omoro Sōshi (おもろそうし), a collection of Okinawan poems and songs. The garden contains...
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    written in the Shuri dialect of Okinawan. Commoners did not learn kanji. Omoro Sōshi (1531–1623), a noted Ryukyuan song collection, was mainly written in...
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    kanji. Okinawan became the official language under King Shō Shin. The Omoro Sōshi, a compilation of ancient Ryukyuan poems, was written in an early form...
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    Shicha-nu-una. It is the theme of many of the songs and prayers recorded in Omoro Sōshi (Okinawan: umuru sooshi), Ryukyu's oldest music collection. Agari-no-azana...
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    history and culture, personal and place names, and classics such as the Omoro Sōshi. His private collection of documents and historical materials, numbering...
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  • Omoro Sōshi (校本おもろさうし, kōhon omoro sōshi) General Index and Encyclopedia of the Omoro Sōshi (おもろさうし辞典・総索引, Omoro sōshi jiten / sōsakuin) "Nakahara Zenchū...
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    historical value, from modern historians' perspective. Additionally, the Omoro Sōshi (1623) is helpful in understanding Okinawa's own world-view although...
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    off. These lost antiquities included the royal crowns, Omoro Sōshi, ugui, and others. Omoro Sōshi was discovered in the United States a few years later...
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    in Okinawa. There was also a divine woman named "Uchinaa" in the book Omoro Sōshi, a compilation of ancient poems and songs from Okinawa Island. This suggests...
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    towards completion of M.A., University of Hawaii, 1964. Along with the Omoro Sōshi, it is one of the collections of Ryukyu history and legend. Compiled...
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  • an Island People by George H. Kerr The Language of the Old-Okinawan Omoro Sōshi: Reference Grammar, with Textual Selections, by Rumiko Shinzato and Leon...
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    (1554) associates Okinawa (おきなは) with the earth under the king (天下). The Omoro Sōshi, a compilation of archaic ritual songs, contains a dozen of songs referring...
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    Forest at Hedo, in what is now Kunigami; the forest is also mentioned in Omoro Sōshi. Ceramics from the Jōmon-period Uzahama Site (宇佐浜遺跡) resemble those found...
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    golden age of poetry and literature blossomed. The first volumes of the Omoro Sōshi, a collection of poems, songs, and chants reflecting centuries-old oral...
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    area represented by the modern town of Yonabaru may be found in the Omoro Sōshi, which makes mention of "Yonaharu" and "Yonaha-bama". According to the...
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  • Japanese matriarchal culture” came from the south (147). According to the Omoro Sōshi, Shiji is sought from the other world in the skies or over the sea (Monica...
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    Shōhashi to Chōhachi (ちやうはち), a personal name appearing twice in the Omoro Sōshi. The history books compiled during the second Shō Dynasty claim that...
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  • 1702 to 1712. In his term, he was assigned to take charge of collecting Omoro Sōshi (1710), and compiling Konkōkenshū (混効験集) (1711), the first dictionary...
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    the name of Eisa was related to wesa omoro (Okinawan: ゑさおもろ), a phrase appearing in Volume 14 of the Omoro Sōshi (16th–17th centuries). This theory is...
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  • Tatsurokane (達魯加禰), was a bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom. In some poems of Omoro Sōshi, he was mentioned and called Takushi Tarō (沢岻 太郎). Takushi Seiri was...
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