Ryukyu and Southeast Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3632725 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shunzo Sakamaki (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1964 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 383-389 |
| Publication date | 1964-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2050757 |
| OpenAlex | W2108325235 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 3 |
From about 1373 to 1570, or for nearly two centuries, the kings of Ryukyu engaged in a prosperous and active trade between East and Southeast Asia. Several hundred Ryukyuan ships voyaged to Southeast Asian ports, from Siam to Patani, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, and elsewhere. These were in addition to, and indeed complementary to, hundreds of trading voyages to China, Japan, and Korea.However, there are only scattered references to the Ryukyuan trading expeditions to Southeast Asia in Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean records. What is more, Ryukyuan chronicles compiled in the seventeenth century contain only fragmentary notices of these voyages. This was most puzzling to modern scholars, for other records showed that tremendous quantities of goods of southern origin were carried frm Ryukyu to China, Japan, and Korea in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, indicating that there must have been a correspondingly large trade with southern regions. It had to be presumed that in connection with such trade, countless records and documents must have been compiled. And yet the official histories of Ryukyu made only passing mention of old contacts with countries in the southern seas
Ancient history · Archaeology · China · East Asia · Fifteenth · Geography · Portuguese · Southeast asia · History · Japanese History and Culture
Analyzing historic human-suid relationships through dental microwear texture and geometric morphometric analyses of archaeological suid teeth in the Ryukyu Islands
Economic Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia
Husbandry system of Sus on Okinawa Island, Japan, after introduction of domestic breeds
Economic Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia. Perspectives from Prehistory, History, and Ethnography
Archaeological Perspectives on the Rise of the Okinawan State
The Melaka Sultanate, c.1400–1528
An 'Age of Commerce' in Southeast Asian History
Time, Money, and the Weather
Constructing a Martial Tradition
In the Image of the Other
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1979 - 2025 (47) |
| Highly cited | No |