User:Donald Trung/Template heading "History of the Ryūkyū Islands"

This page serves as a draftspace for a potential template heading image for a "History of the Ryūkyū Islands" sidebar template.

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• "History of the Ryūkyū Islands" for template heading

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A proliferation of various Ryūkyūan cultural symbols such as indigenous food, dances, music, musical instruments, a Chinese guardian lion (Shisa), and both indigenously produced and Satsuma-manufactured cash coins combined with the Okinawan text "Ruuchuu nu iwari" (琉球ぬ歴史 / るーちゅぬーいわり) and the Classical Chinese text "Ruuchuu iwari" (琉球歴史) both meaning "History of (the) Ryūkyū (Islands)" to symbolise the diverse history of the Ryūkyū Islands.

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A proliferation of various Ryūkyūan cultural symbols such as indigenous food, dances, music, musical instruments, a Chinese guardian lion (Shisa), and both indigenously produced and Satsuma-manufactured cash coins combined with the Okinawan text "Ruuchuu nu iwari" ( 琉球 ( るーちゅー)ぬ 歴史 ( いわり)) and the Classical Chinese text "Ruuchuu iwari" (琉球歴史) both meaning "History of (the) Ryūkyū (Islands)" to symbolise the diverse history of the Ryūkyū Islands.

Text concepts

• 琉球の歴史 (Japanese)
• 琉球ぬ歴史 (Okinawan)
• Ruuchuu nu iwari
• 琉球歴史 in seal script.
• るーちゅぬーいわり
• 琉球 ( るーちゅー)ぬ 歴史 ( いわり)
• 琉球國 (Lưu Cầu quốc)

Image sources ("Source" field)

Derived from:

 

This image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:

 Ruuchuu nu iwari (琉球ぬ歴史).png (by Donald Trung).

 

This image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:

 Sekō Tsūhō - Dr. Luke Roberts 01.jpg (by Prof. Luke Roberts).

 

This image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:

 Okinawan shisa.JPG (by Uchinanchu).

 

This image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:

 Sanshin.png (by Colección del Museo Azzarini, Universidad Nacional de La Plata).

 

This image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:

 Eisa Festival DVIDS193087.jpg (by Lance Cpl. Stefanie Pupkiewicz (Government of the United States of America)).

 

This image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:

 Bukubuku cha2.jpg (by Opqr).

 

This image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:

 Hidari gomon.svg (by Shogyoku).

 

This image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:

 Okinawa Soba Yanbaru.jpg (by Banzai Hiroaki).

 

This image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:

 Ryukyu-tsuho-1.jpg (by As6022014).

 

This image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:

 Seragaki eisa.jpg (by Kasanui).

Background images as a whole:

• https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Ry%C5%ABky%C5%ABan_cultural_symbols_elements_(2021).svg&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile
• https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Ry%C5%ABky%C5%ABan_cultural_symbols_elements_(2021).png&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile

Webtools used:

• https://www.remove.bg/upload
• http://overlay.imageonline.co/

Inspired by:

• File:"History of Vietnam" for template heading.png.
  • And in turn by: File:"History of China" for template heading (right-to-left).svg.

Special thanks to Trần Phương Anh (陳芳英) and Sturmgewehr88.

Image sources (raw)

Symbols.

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sek%C5%8D_Ts%C5%ABh%C5%8D_-_Dr._Luke_Roberts_01.jpg
• https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coa_Illustration_Tomoe_1.svg
• https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Okinawan_shisa.JPG
• https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanshin.png

Possibly.

• https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eisa_Festival_DVIDS193087.jpg

• https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:151230_Kume-Shiseibyo_Naha_Okinawa_pref_Japan01n.jpg

• https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bukubuku_cha2.jpg

Sturmgewehr88's suggestions.

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hidari_gomon.svg

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Okinawa_Soba_Yanbaru.jpg

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ryukyu-tsuho-1.jpg

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seragaki_eisa.jpg

Copyright license

Creative Commons 4.0 International License, no need to specify the authors.

Tools to use

• https://www.remove.bg/upload

• http://overlay.imageonline.co/

Components and concepts

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  Concept text and Traditional Chinese seal.
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  Concept text and Traditional Chinese seal.
• 
  Concept collage (SVG).
• 
  Concept collage (PNG).

Comments

I only realised this later but all humans present in the published image are right-handed and the utensils are placed to be used as such by right-handed people. While I am not a Right Supremacist that screams at left-handed people in the streets the phrase "Right power!" With my right fist in the air. And then use statistics like the fact 90% of humans are right-handed compared to only 70% of chimpanzees and only 50% of cats and dogs to "prove" somehow that because humans are the dominant species of the world that the overrepresentation of right-handed humans somehow means that this was a part of this "superiority". Okinawans are as far as I know just as likely to be left-handed as other humans (couldn't find any research that proves otherwise) and I should have at least included one (1) one-handed Okinawan for representation.