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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 7311178, member: 97383&quot;]posnerfan_48, Thank you for an interesting an well researched article <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I had no idea the Ryukyu Islands had their own coinage but I&#039;m not surprised. They were heavily influenced by the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, &amp; Vietnamese, who all had coinage. Members from my generation still carry bad memories of the Ryukyu Islands, specifically Okinawa. Okinawa was the only place American soldiers physically engaged the Japanese during WW II. I had one uncle who took part in that campaign &amp; his war stories were hair raising <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. A great deal of Okinawa was destroyed in that war <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I Have a friend who traveled Okinawa in the 1980s to learn about their famous tradition of making ceramics. Their ceramics were highly regarded by the Japanese for use in the tea ceremony, &amp; the samurai would often store their Sake in pottery jars made in the Ryukyu Islands. When my friend returned from Okinawa she made me the rustic tea bowl in Raku pottery pictured below <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. It is decorated only with its glaze &amp; a few incised lines depicting blades of grass.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1278057[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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