Onna Village

Stone road winds the slope, not the top.

Nakadomari Site, Hiyagonbira

Photo by Bérangère444 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Onna Nabi

A monument under a pineis inscribed with Onna Nabi's Ryuka verse.

恩納松下の碑.jpg — Photo by 平地ポカ (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Onna Nabi was a woman poet of Ryuka, a form of Okinawan verse. Her birth date is uncertain; her surviving poems suggest the early 18th century. A Ryuka has 8 and 8 syllables in the upper verse and 8 and 6 in the lower. The Onna Matsushita monument, inscribed with one of her best-known works, is described by the tourism association as a village-designated cultural property, and has an explanatory sign.

Thought to be early 18th century
Onna Matsushita monument: village-designated, per the tourism association
Monument at her birthplace site

02 ／ Yamada Castle Site

A gusuku where successive Yamada Aji livedhas yielded postholes, celadon and arrowheads.

At the Yamada Castle Site, many postholes showing building remains, celadon, arrowheads and Chinese coins have been found. Gosamaru is said to have spent his childhood here. Below the cliff on its north side, an arched stone slab bridge with a raised center crosses the stream. The village website advises asking the village office for the exact location.

2008: national Historic Site
Chinese ceramics of the 14th to early 15th century found
Bridge restored from four existing stones

03 ／ Maeda Ichirizuka

An ichirizuka built as a pair beside the old roadwas made of soil mixed with charcoal.

The Maeda ichirizuka lies beside the old post road in the hills of Takoyama, on the Maeda side. It is an earthen mound of soil mixed with charcoal, topped with Ryukyu pines and set up as one of a pair. One was destroyed by field clearing and has since been restored. Of five ichirizuka in the village, two remain.

Sept. 30, 2004: national Historic Site, Kunigamiho Seikaido
Earthen mound of soil mixed with charcoal
2 of 5 in the village remain

Living here

About an hour by car from Naha, a long, narrow village.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

Onna lies on the west coast of the main island, near its center: a long, narrow village 27.4 km north to south and 4.2 km east to west, with no railway. The village website says it takes about an hour by car from Naha via the Okinawa Expressway, and that route buses run from the airport. The gateway is the village office.

People living here: 10,869people
Area: 50.81km²
Households: 4,735households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 3 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —5 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities.

Onna Village in Japan26.497°N 127.854°E

Territory of Onna Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

12.9km

金武町, うるま市, 読谷村, 名護市, 宜野座村, 沖縄市

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Onna Village isthis kind of town.

01The Nakadomari Site, a national Historic Site made up of four shell mounds, one cave and the Hiyagonbira paved road, has a stone road built not on the hilltop but winding the east and west slopes, with about 98 m remaining on the east and about 76.5 m on the west
02Onna Nabi, a woman Ryuka poet of the early 18th century, has monuments at Onna Matsushita and also at Manzamo, which the village museum presents as a scenic site
03The Yamada Castle Site, where successive Yamada Aji lived, is a national Historic Site, the Maeda ichirizuka is part of the national Historic Site Kunigamiho Seikaido, and a Village Board of Education sign says the Hiyagonbira paved road links two ichirizuka

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Onna Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗