Ryukyu Culture Site of the Month
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Tamaudun - At about two hundred meters down toward the west from the
ceremonial arch of Shurei-mon, a symbol of Okinawa there still exists a Royal
Mausoleum. Tamaudun entombing the successive generation of the Sho En dynasty.
Tamaudun was build in 1501 to re-entomb the remain of father King Sho En by a
wise ruler Sho Shin who was called the midst restorer in the one thousand year history
of Okinawa. Sho Shin established the foundation of the centralization of administrative
power and made himself famous by overseas trade.
This old mausoleum has a site area reaching 2,442 square meters surrounding by the
stone walls laid 2 meters high of Ryukyuan limestones. It displays an architectural skill
and structural scale to remind us of the rich Ryukyu at that time of the first golden age
as they took an active part freely and unrestrictedly as an ocean race.
The mausoleum has two lines of stones walls. We can reach the front of the tomb by
passing though the outer and inner courts covered with coral sand.
The tomb consisting of three rooms is sort of an interment using crag shadow bored to
the natural wall of the cliff.
It is handed down by tradition that the center room was for placing the remains before
washing the bones and is called Shiruhirashi. The room on the left was for the
successive kings and queens, and the room on the right was for the princes and
princesses.
The sculptured stones lion and lioness standing on top of the mounds and the
inscription on the stone monument at the outer court between the first and second
gates are maintained to be very significant cultural asset.
ceremonial arch of Shurei-mon, a symbol of Okinawa there still exists a Royal
Mausoleum. Tamaudun entombing the successive generation of the Sho En dynasty.
Tamaudun was build in 1501 to re-entomb the remain of father King Sho En by a
wise ruler Sho Shin who was called the midst restorer in the one thousand year history
of Okinawa. Sho Shin established the foundation of the centralization of administrative
power and made himself famous by overseas trade.
This old mausoleum has a site area reaching 2,442 square meters surrounding by the
stone walls laid 2 meters high of Ryukyuan limestones. It displays an architectural skill
and structural scale to remind us of the rich Ryukyu at that time of the first golden age
as they took an active part freely and unrestrictedly as an ocean race.
The mausoleum has two lines of stones walls. We can reach the front of the tomb by
passing though the outer and inner courts covered with coral sand.
The tomb consisting of three rooms is sort of an interment using crag shadow bored to
the natural wall of the cliff.
It is handed down by tradition that the center room was for placing the remains before
washing the bones and is called Shiruhirashi. The room on the left was for the
successive kings and queens, and the room on the right was for the princes and
princesses.
The sculptured stones lion and lioness standing on top of the mounds and the
inscription on the stone monument at the outer court between the first and second
gates are maintained to be very significant cultural asset.
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