Naha City
~Intellectual Floating~ Ukishima Course 2026 (24 sessions in total)
History Course to Learn the General History of Ryukyu and Okinawa #1 Prehistory (1) “Where did Ryukyuans come from”
- Lecture / Seminar
- Real-life event
Schedule
2026.04.12(日)
Start:10:00 End:12:00
Charge
Tuition fee (1 time) 3000 yen
Tuition fee (11 lessons in the first semester) 24750 yen
Tuition fee (12 lessons in the second semester) 27,000 yen
Tuition fee (23 sessions throughout the year) 51,750 yen (11 beer tickets, 8800 yen worth)
18 and under: free
If an admission fee for Shuri Castle or an art museum is required, separate
Contents
Lecturer: Furutsuka Tatsuro (Local Historian, Okinawa International University Minamishima Cultural Research Institute Special Researcher)
A total of 24 history courses where you can experience the path that Ryukyu and Okinawa have walked together with local historian Tatsuro Furutsuka.
●First semester
Session 1 4/12 (Sun) Prehistory (1) “Where did Ryukyu people come from” ※First trial free
Session 2 4/26 (Sun) Prehistory (2) “The Kaizuka Period and Miyako/Yaeyama”
3rd 5/10 (Sun) Ancient Ryukyu (1) “From the Gusuku Era to a unified government”
4th 5/24 (Sun) Special Lecture “Walking around Shuri Castle”
5th 6/14 (Sun) Ancient Ryukyu (2) “The First Hisashi Dynasty and the Unification of Ryukyu”
6th 6/28 (Sun) Ancient Ryukyu (3) “Ryukyu in the Second Hisashi Dynasty and the Great Trade Era”
7th 7/12 (Sun) Early Modern Ryukyu (1) “Satsuma Shimazu Clan Invasion of Ryukyu”
8th 7/26 (Sun) Early Modern Ryukyu (2) “How did farmers live?”
9th 8/09 (Sun) Early Modern Ryukyu (3) “Early Modern Ryukyu Industry and Culture (Part 1)”
10th 8/23 (Sun) Early Modern Ryukyu (4) “Early Modern Ryukyu Industry and Culture (Part 2)”
11th 9/13 (Sun) Special Lecture “Urasoe Art Museum Mai”
12th 9/27 (Sun) Early Modern Ryukyu (5) “Western Ships Arriving and Ryukyu Seen by Foreign Ships”
●Second semester
13th 10/11 (Sun) Early Modern Ryukyu (6) “How was the Ryukyu Kingdom dismantled?”
14th 10/25 (Sun) Modern Okinawa (1) “The Beginning of Okinawa Prefectural Government”
15th 11/08 (Sun) Special Lecture “Wakayama-san and Stone Lion Exploration”
16th 11/22 (Sun) Modern Okinawa (2) “Reform of old customs and abolition of special systems”
17th 12/13 (Sun) Modern Okinawa (3) “The Fifteen Years' War and Okinawa”
18th 12/27 (Sun) Special Lecture “Introducing This Year's Uchina Books by Editor Miyagi Kazuharu”
19th 1/10 (Sun) Special Lecture “How to walk in Shikinaen Royal Garden”
20th 1/24 (Sun) Special Lecture “Walking around Shikinaen Royal Garden”
21st 2/14 (Sun) Post-war Okinawa (1) “What can be seen from the Battle of Okinawa: US Occupation and Homeland Restoration Movement”
22nd 2/28 (Sun) Post-war Okinawa (2) “The Battle of the Islands and the Return of Okinawa”
23rd 3/14 (Sun) Special Lecture “Onoyama Mai”
24th 3/28 (Sun) Okinawa after the war (3) “Okinawa after returning to Japan”
Performers
- Furutsuka Tatsuro
Official URL
UKISHIMA BREWING