Okinawan Studies: Printed Books/Bibliography

Bibliography Written in ENG (Reference Book)

• Ryukyu : an annotated bibliography with with introductory essays by Mitsugu Sakihara. (1981).
  •  This bibliography represents the holdings on Ryukyu of the Thomas Hale Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii at Manoa. 
  • A PDF version available from ScholarSpace. Items in ScholarSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Redistributing a copy is a violation of the United States copyright law.
• Ryukyu: a bibliographical guide to Okinawan studies; surveying important primary sources and writings in Ryukyuan, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean  

• Ryukyu Islands : a bibliography  

• Ryukyuan research resources at the University of Hawaii  

Bibliography Written in JPN (Reference Book)

• Amami Okinawagaku bunken shiryo mokuroku / 奄美沖縄学文献資料目錄  

• Okinawa kankei zasshi kiji sakuin / 沖縄関係雑誌記事索引

• Ryukyu kyodo shiryo mokuroku / 琉球郷土史料目録

• Shinbun Kiji Sakuin / 新聞記事索引 
  This is an index of Okinawa Times and Ryukyushimpo covered their articles from 1950-1970.

Printed Books Written in English

• The Ryukyu Kingdom : cornerstone of East Asia / Mamoru Akamine ; translated by Lina Terrell and edited by Robert Huey. (2017).  An English translation of the Ryūkyū ōkoku by Mamoru Akamine. 

• Okinawa : the rise of an Island Kingdom : archaeological and cultural perspectives...

• Okinawa, the history of an island people
  Located at the Folio book section on the second floor of Hamilton Library.
  
• Ryukyu studies to 1854 : Western encounter part 1
  Vol. 1-5.

• A linguistic history of the forgotten islands : a reconstruction of the proto-language of the Southern Ryukyus

• Nature, ritual, and society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands

Printed Books Written in Japanese

• Ryukyu Okoku: Higashi Ajia no Kona Suton / 琉球王国：東アジアのコーナーストーン

• Ryukyu okoku no gaiko to oken / 琉球王国の外交と王権

• Shinbun ni miru Hawai no Okinawajin 90-nen. Senzen hen / 新聞 に みる ハワイ の 沖縄人 90年. 戦前 編

• Okinawa to Nihon kokka : kokka o shoshasuru "chiiki" / 沖縄と日本国家 : 国家を照射する(地域)

• Shinmatsu Chu Ryu Nichi kankeishi no kenkyu / 淸末中琉日関係史の研究

• Okinawa : ari wa zō ni idomu / 沖縄 : アリは象に挑む

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