Inaugurated in 1948 at Jamaica Racetrack
Ryukyuan music (琉球音楽, Ryūkyū ongaku), also known as Nanto music (南島歌謡, Nantō kayō), is an umbrella time period that encompasses various musical traditions of the Amami, Okinawa, Miyako and Yaeyama Islands of southwestern Japan. Since Ryūkyū was conquered by Satsuma Area within the early seventeenth century, the samurai class in Shuri embraced the excessive tradition […]