1 2 47
1992 1996 1997 1999 2003 G 2008 3 4 1960 5 1970 48
1946 1987 1 4 6 7 1993 238 49
1960 50
8 9 1995 1972 51
10 52
1947 1995 11 30 1990 53
11 12 1996 1 2004 10 54
1990 1970 13 1970 1970 1972 55
1970 14 1949 2005 56
62 18 A 57
108 109 58
109 2013 2005 1994 1970 5 24 59
15 16 1977 1972 17 60
194 195 18 9 61
BIOGRAPHY 2008 9 20 2006 126 62
21 249 250 1901 1750 758 63
22 23 1771 1996 228 64
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2000 2003 24 66
2008 11 1977 1977 12 1713 67
76 2011 1983 1988 15 1996 2007 13 1973 2008 1988 17 1991 2008 14 1998 1984 68
15 2010 6 22 23 24 16 1999 17 18 19 10 2001 48 2002 672 2009 2 2010 2011 11 2010 12 1938 1973 1982 1987 13 1944 32 14 2007 117 NHK 2005 15 2008 9 16 www.webdoku.jp/rensai/sakka/michi51.html WEB 2006.1.27 2012.1.20 69
17 18 19 16 20 1 16 21 1970 22 Esquire 2004 2 23 5 2009 7 24 2007 7 *** 5 2009 7 70
Okinawan Literature : Looking Through the Mabui YONAHA Keiko Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences Toyo Eiwa University The aim of this article is to analyze the role and meanings in contemporary Okinawan literature of the mabui, a soul-like entity referred to by Okinawan people. Okinawan people believed that the mabui does not perish at the time of human death, but survives and lives its life after the physical death. How did this traditional but naive idea penetrate into modern literature, and for what purpose? Within the five modern works I have analyzed, mabui is used not as an old-fashioned and poor idea, but as a prosperous one. The entity that endures existence after physical death can be superposed upon the Okinawan people themselves. The memories that have happened and the experiences now going on, all is playing on the mabui. This means the mabui is the subject (subjectum) in an original Latin sense. It is mabui that memorizes and experiences. This subjective aspect of mabui corresponds exactly to the historicity and the present state of Okinawa. The endurance of mabui can be equated with the possibility of Okinawan cultural identity. 71