This list is of the Cultural Properties of Japan designated in the category of for the Prefecture of Okinawa.[1]
As of 1 June 2019, zero properties have been designated as being of national significance.[2] [3] [4]
As of 1 May 2018, eleven properties have been designated at a prefectural level.[4] [5]
Property | Date | Municipality | Ownership | Comments | Image | Dimensions | Coordinates | Ref. |
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Hakutaku, by Ji Ryō Ji Ryō hitsu Hakutaku-no-zu | institutional (kept at the) | Ji Ryō is the art name of Gusukuma Seihō (1614–1644), son of a Shuri pechin[6] | 26.2183°N 127.7154°W | for all refs see http://www.pref.okinawa.jp/edu/bunkazai/edu/jimukyoku/bunkazai/documents/h27010.pdf | ||||
Flowers and birds, colour on silk, by Sonoku kinuhon chakushoku kachō zu Sonoku hitsu | private (kept at the Kumejima Museum) | Chinese painter Sonoku, active in Fuzhou in the second half of the seventeenth century, exerted considerable influence on Ryūkyūan painting after local painters and crossed to China and received instruction from him in 1683; Sonoku's painting of flowers and birds was presented in thanks to the Kikumura family after the shipwreck of the Imperial Chinese mission off Kumejima in 1756[7] | 26.3417°N 126.7637°W | |||||
Flowers and birds, colour on silk, by In Genryō kinuhon chakushoku kachō-zu In Genryō hitsu | Okinawa Prefecture (kept at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum) | In Genryō (1718–1767) was born in Shuri and summoned to the Ryūkyū court on account of his talent in painting aged 12; from 1752 he spent two years in China; after the death of, In Genryō was the leading court painter; most of his works are now lost; the shape of the branches of the plum and the distribution of its flowers, combining vigour with delicacy, are characteristic of the Southern School and thence of Nanga[8] [9] | 98.7cm (38.9inches) by 43.7cm (17.2inches) | 26.2272°N 127.6938°W | ||||
Pheasant in the snow, colour on paper, by In Genryō shihon chakushoku setchū kiji no zu In Genryō hitsu | Okinawa Prefecture (kept at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum) | there is no snowfall in Okinawa, but in the shoin of Shuri Castle In Genryō studied Chinese exemplars of the subject of flowers and birds in the snow[10] | 143.7cm (56.6inches) by 67.2cm (26.5inches) | 26.2272°N 127.6938°W | ||||
Bamboo, ink on paper, by In Genryō shihon bokuga take no zu In Genryō hitsu | Okinawa Prefecture (kept at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum) | ink wash paintings on the subject of bamboo provided suitable decoration for the tokonoma of the warrior family residences of Shuri[11] | 101.7cm (40inches) by 45.5cm (17.9inches) | 26.2272°N 127.6938°W | ||||
Mission to the Ryūkyūs, colour on paper shihon chakushoku hōshi Ryūkyū zu | Okinawa Prefecture (kept at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum) | emakimono with twenty views of one of the Imperial Chinese missions on its journey from the port of Fuzhou to that of Naha and back again[12] [13] | 26.2272°N 127.6938°W | |||||
Procession on a Mission to the Ryūkyūs, colour on paper shihon chakushoku sakuhōshi gyōretsu zu | Okinawa Prefecture (kept at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum) | emakimono depicting some 600 figures, 380 Ryukyuans and 220 envoys[14] | 22.5m (73.8feet) | 26.2272°N 127.6938°W | ||||
Divine cat, by Yamaguchi Sōki shinbyō zu Yamaguchi Sōki hitsu | Naha City (kept at the Naha City Museum of History) | the reputation of Yamaguchi Sōki (1672-1743) was such that he received commissions for paintings of flowers and birds from the Shimazu clan in Satsuma and Konoe family in Kyoto[15] | 26.2137°N 127.6793°W | |||||
Portrait of Tōnin Taku, colour on paper shihon chakushoku Tōnin Taku (Chinen sato-nushi-peeichin Seigyō) gazō tsuketari ichi, kyōkun jūkajō ichi, kakemono iribako | private (kept at the Ishigaki City Yaeyama Museum) | accompanied by a scroll with ten precepts and a storage case; portrait of Tōnin Taku (1778-1861), village pechin, aged 61[16] | 24.338°N 124.1596°W | |||||
Portrait of Miyahira Chōen, colour on paper shihon chakushoku Miyahira Chōen gazō | private (kept at the Ishigaki City Yaeyama Museum) | portrait of Miyahira Chōen (1674-1749) aged 71 | 24.338°N 124.1596°W | |||||
Portrait of Kikumura Kiyoshi Satoshi, colour on paper shihon chakushoku Kikumura Kiyoshi Satoshi (Katami Jitōde) zō | private (kept at the Kumejima Museum) | thought to have been painted when the sitter was 47; the Kikumura family served as local officials on Kumejima[17] | 130.2cm (51.3inches) by 72.6cm (28.6inches) | 26.3417°N 126.7637°W | ||||
As of 1 May 2018, six properties have been designated at a municipal level.[4] [18]
Property | Date | Municipality | Ownership | Comments | Image | Dimensions | Coordinates | Ref. |
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Genuine Views of the Ryūkyū Islands, emaki Ryūkyū-tō shinkei emaki | by of the [19] | 14m (46feet) by 42cm (17inches) | 26.5862°N 127.9869°W | for all refs see http://www.pref.okinawa.jp/edu/bunkazai/edu/jimukyoku/bunkazai/documents/h27010.pdf | ||||
Ryūkyū Trading Port, byōbu Ryūkyū kōekikō zu byōbu | Urasoe City (kept at Urasoe Art Museum) | includes depictions of tribute ships returning from China, dragon boats,, Yarazamori gusuku, Mie gusuku, Naminoue Shrine, Sōgen-ji, Enkaku-ji, and Shuri Castle[20] | 120cm (50inches) by 290cm (110inches) | 26.25°N 127.7195°W | ||||
Eight Views of Ryūkyū Ryūkyū hakkei | Urasoe City (kept at Urasoe Art Museum) | series of eight prints by Hokusai;[21],,,,,,, and | 26.25°N 127.7195°W | |||||
Ryūkyū Trading Port Ryūkyū kōekikō zu | Urasoe City (kept at Urasoe Art Museum) | three scrolls | 26.25°N 127.7195°W | |||||
Flowers and birds kachō zu | Urasoe City (kept at Urasoe Art Museum) | by | 26.25°N 127.7195°W | |||||
Proof Prints for Eight Views of Ryūkyū Ryūkyū hakkei kyōgōzuri | Urasoe City (kept at Urasoe Art Museum) | set of eight from the blocks used to print the outlines[22] | 26.25°N 127.7195°W | |||||