Its heritage of embracing foreign influences is reflected in its distinctive pottery ... urns. Our explorer meets with skilled artisans to gain an insight into the spirituality of the Okinawan ...

The old gent has made himself a pair of bifocals by taping two pairs of glasses together…You will notice he smokes Camel cigarettes with an ivory holder, and the dragon ash tray is Okinawan pottery.” ...

The urns contain the skulls and bones of departed Okinawans. Inside one vault, which had been hit by a shell, lay a coffin made of wooden slats. It contained the body of a recently-dead Okinawan.

Yumiko says her hometown is a great place to find one-of-a-kind pottery at affordable prices. "Okinawan people are very open-minded and inclusive," Yumiko says, pointing to the eclectic pottery ...

In the late 17th century, the government of the Ryukyu Kingdom centralized Okinawa's pottery industry in the Tsuboya district of Naha. Most potters here now are located along a street called ...