Yachimun Street

"Yachimun" implies ceramics in Okinawan lingo, and there are a wide range of earthenwares made on the island from every day utilize plates and containers to "Shisaa", Okinawa form of Sphinx or Chinese watchman lions. In this way, in the event that you are searching for keepsakes for yourself to use in regular day to day existence or presents for somebody extraordinary, most likely it is a decent place to search for ones.

Earthenware in Okinawa created with verifiable foundations of Ryukyu Kingdom. As the kingdom was prospering through exchanging with Southern Asian nations beginning in fourteenth century, numerous earthenwares were taken back to Okinawa, which added to enhance characteristics and strategies of ceramics.

At that point in 1616, Korean potters were welcome to Ryukyu from Satsuma current Kagoshima Prefecture to show Korean style strategies, and Ryukyuan man, Mr. Tentsu HIRATA, examined Chinese earthenwares in China and conveyed back their strategies to Okinawa in 1670.