Showing posts with label water buffalo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water buffalo. Show all posts
Friday, October 13, 2023
Yubu Island Water Buffalo Carts
Labels:
iriomote,
okinawa,
water buffalo
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Taketomi Island Water Buffalo
At several places around the Okinawan Islands you can ride in a cart drawn by Water Buffalo, but the most well known is I think the island of Taketomi.
The water buffalo was domesticated about 5,000 years ago in India and about 4,000 years ago in southern China, which is probably where Okinawa got them from.
Taketomi Island is quite small with just a few hundred inhabitants living in the one village of Taeketomi, a Histroical Preservation District of Historic Buildings with traditional streets of sand lined with stone walls.
Almost every house has a red tile roof, but that is a modern phenomenon that started in 1905 because traditionally commoners were not allowed tile roofs, rather they were thatched.
Labels:
Arata Isozaki,
okinawa,
taketomi,
water buffalo
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