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13-564: Though there had been Lords of Nakijin prior to the creation of the Hokuzan kingdom, and thus some form of chiefly residence can be presumed to have been on or near the site before, it is believed that the gusuku form of Nakijin castle only emerged at the founding of the kingdom. It is located on the Motobu Peninsula , on a rocky outcropping, facing out over the East China Sea . The castle

26-457: A kenkan (乾巻) and a konkan (坤巻), corresponding to the hexagrams in I Ching . The entries in each of the volumes are sorted by thematic order: According to Lawrence (2015:158), the total number of entries in the Konkōkenshū is 1,148 entries, of which 92 of them are duplicates. Headwords are written on the top of the page, while the translation and explanation are written on the bottom of

39-767: A Okinawan word list written in Japanese, says "某のあんしきやなし　御太子御妃井御子様方御嫁部の御事" ("Some anjikyanashi [are the] great nobility of crown princes, the well of the imperical concubine, the ways of the great child, and parts of the great bride"). Various Old and Middle Okinawan anthologies variously spell it as あし, あじ, あち, あぢ, あんし, あんじ, and 按司. Examples of the word in Ryukyuan dialects include Amami Yamatohama [ʔadʑi] , Okinawan Nakijin-Yonamine [ʔàdʑĭː] , Okinawan Shuri [ʔádʑí ~ áɲdʑí] , Miyako Irabu-Nakachi [azɨ] . Various etymologies have been proposed for this word. For instance, Iha Fuyu had suggested that this word has been derived from

52-424: Is separated from the main mountain mass of Motobu on the east by a steep drop into a gorge with a stream at the bottom. A steep drop to the north and northeast from the castle drops down to the shoreline. A small harbor inlet here once served the castle, while Unten harbor , the main port of the Hokuzan kingdom, lay roughly 5 to 6 miles to the east. The royal residence was located at the highest and innermost part of

65-635: The Japanese feudal Domain of Satsuma invaded the Ryukyu Kingdom. After fierce fighting in the Amami Islands , they landed on Okinawa Island at Unten harbor. They attacked Nakijin Castle with heavy casualties on both sides, but the Japanese prevailed and burned the castle. As a tourist site, the ruins are particularly known for the beautiful view out over the East China Sea, for the impressive grandeur of

78-464: The Japanese word aruji "master". This biography of a member of an Asian royal house is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Konk%C5%8Dkensh%C5%AB Konkōkenshū ( 混効験集 , literally "list of mixed effective [words]") is the first dictionary of the Okinawan language and the first of any Ryukyuan language . The dictionary was compiled by a group of seven people under

91-468: The castle walls, and for the overall amount of space taken up by the castle grounds. Hokuzan in general was characterized by wider spaces, or at least less dense settlement and population, than Nanzan and Chūzan, the other kingdoms on the island at that time. Nakijin is also consistently among the first places in the country to see, and celebrate, the blooming of the cherry blossoms ( sakura ) each year. Aji (Ryukyu) An aji , or anji ( 按司 )

104-407: The complex and was surrounded by a small garden with a spring. Three shrines ( uganju ) stood at the highest point of the precipice. In a less inner enclosures, located at a somewhat lower elevations, were residences for certain vassals, along with administrative buildings, stables for the horses, and garrisons for the warriors of the principality. As was typical of gusuku construction at this time,

117-522: The order of King Shō Tei , dated no later than 1711. Konkōkenshū contains many archaic words and expressions remembered by an elder woman of the royal court that served three kings, and cites works such as the Omoro Sōshi , an Old Okinawan anthology, The Tale of Genji , and The Tales of Ise , which are works written in Early Middle Japanese . There are two volumes in Konkōkenshū,

130-458: The stonework of the walls was very solid, but quite rough, with a relative lack of precision fitting or fine cutting. Roughly 1500 meters of limestone castle wall remain today. The castle saw three generations of rulers before being attacked and destroyed by the armies of Chūzan in 1416. Lords of Hokuzan governing in subordination to the royal capital at Shuri would continue to make their residence here for several centuries afterwards. In 1609,

143-592: The suffix ganashi or kanashi (加那志) followed: "Nago Aji-ganashi ". The kanji used to spell this word, "按司", appears to be phono-semantic matching , consisting of the words "keep under control" + "official". The Liuqiu Guan Yiyu (琉球館訳語), a Okinawan word list written in Chinese, states that "大唐大人　大刀那安只" ("[The] Tang nobility [are called] *taj.taw.na.an.tʂr̩ "), while the Zhongsang Zhuanxinlu (中山伝信録) says "老爺 安主" ("[A] lord [is called] an.tʂy "). Konkōkenshū ,

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156-566: Was a ruler of a small kingdom in the history of the Ryukyu Islands . The word later became a title and rank of nobility in the Ryukyu Kingdom . It ranked next below a prince among nobility. The sons of princes and the eldest sons of aji became aji. An aji established a noble family equivalent to a shinnōke of Japan . The aji arose around the twelfth century as local leaders began to build gusuku (Ryukyuan castles). Shō Hashi

169-465: Was an aji who later unified Okinawa Island as king. The title aji variously designated sons of the king and regional leaders. During the Second Shō Dynasty, when the aji settled near Shuri Castle , the word came to denote an aristocrat in the castle town. A pattern for addressing a male aji began with the place he ruled and ended with the word aji , for example, "Nago Aji ". For women,

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