Nakamura Residence
Eighteenth-century Ryukyu farmhouse compound that survived World War Two's ground battle almost untouched.
This guide to the Nakamura Residence in Okinawa starts from the near-impossible fact that a single wooden roof on this island survived three months of shelling and hand-to-hand fighting in 1945 that leveled nearly every village and castle nearby. It traces the family back nearly six hundred years to an ancestor named Gaji, who taught the sons of the lord Gosamaru, and follows their fall from favor and slow return to standing through an appointment as village administrator around 1720. You'll hear how the red-tile roof, hardwood pillars and angled stone screen wall all announce rank earned rather than born into. Look for the storehouse on stilts and the stone pigsty, both unchanged for centuries.
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