Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu
Okinawa Prefecture N26 12 31 E127 40 58 ref: 972 Date of Inscription: 2000 Criteria: (ii)(iii)(vi) Brief Description Five hundred years of Ryukyuan history (12th-17th century) are represented by this group of sites and monuments. The ruins of the castles, on imposing elevated sites, are evidence for the social structure over much of that period, while the sacred sites provide mute testimony to the rare survival of an ancient form of religion into the modern age. The wide- ranging economic and cultural contacts of the Ryukyu Islands over that period gave rise to a unique culture. Justification for Inscription Criterion ii For several centuries the Ryukyu islands served as a centre of economic and cultural interchange between south-east Asia, China, Korea, and Japan, and this is vividly demonstrated by the surviving monuments. Criterion iii The culture of the Ryukyuan Kingdom evolved and flourished in a special political and economic environment, which gave its culture a unique quality. Criterion vi The Ryukyu sacred sites constitute an exceptional example of an indigenous form of nature and ancestor worship which has survived intact into the modern age alongside other established world religions.
Okinawa Prefecture N26 12 31 E127 40 58 ref: 972 Date of Inscription: 2000 Criteria: (ii)(iii)(vi) Brief Description Five hundred years of Ryukyuan history (12th-17th century) are represented by this group of sites and monuments. The ruins of the castles, on imposing elevated sites, are evidence for the social structure over much of that period, while the sacred sites provide mute testimony to the rare survival of an ancient form of religion into the modern age. The wide- ranging economic and cultural contacts of the Ryukyu Islands over that period gave rise to a unique culture. Justification for Inscription Criterion ii For several centuries the Ryukyu islands served as a centre of economic and cultural interchange between south-east Asia, China, Korea, and Japan, and this is vividly demonstrated by the surviving monuments. Criterion iii The culture of the Ryukyuan Kingdom evolved and flourished in a special political and economic environment, which gave its culture a unique quality. Criterion vi The Ryukyu sacred sites constitute an exceptional example of an indigenous form of nature and ancestor worship which has survived intact into the modern age alongside other established world religions.
翻譯： 簡要的描述五百年Ryukyuan 歷史(12 第17 個世紀) 由這個小組站點和紀念碑代表。城堡的廢墟, 在強加被舉起的站點, 是證據為社會結構那個期間, 當神聖的站點提供啞證詞對宗教的一個古老形式的罕見的生存入現代。寬排列Ryukyu 海島的經濟和文化聯絡, 期間提升了獨特的文化。 辯解為題字標準ii 幾個世紀Ryukyu 海島擔當了經濟和文化互換的中心在東南亞洲、中國、韓國, 和日本之間, 並且這由生存紀念碑生動地展示。標準III Ryukyuan 王國文化演變和茂盛在一個特別政治和經濟環境裡, 給它的文化獨特的質量。標準vi Ryukyu 神聖的站點構成自然和生存了原封入現代沿著其它建立的世界宗教的敬奉祖先的一個土產形式的一個例外例子。
