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| In the upper part, they are called the “ Barazan” and the “Warazan”, which are a kind of badge made of straw used by people who don't know character in the Ryukyu Dynasty Period. The “Barazan” was used to show and distinguish the items and quantity depending on a way of connecting it by tying the knot and a bud of straw. In short, it was a kind of the method to calculate by people who had no kowlege of writing. The actual thing is in Taketomi-cho, but Mr. Sasamori Gisuke states as follows in the “Nanto Tanken” written when visiting Yonaguni in the 26the year of Meiji era. He says, “I know that it uses the form of elephant with a reverse of the knotted cord when I look at the contracting sentences of Yonaguni now. People in this island will use the sentences like an elephant that are indicated in a knotted cord like a Tamakatsuma as it is seen like a thing of the age when they tied the grass and used it. There is the remains in ancient Period now, so it means that there is an evidence that the Yokushanou visited Japan in ancient age. In the lower part, it is called the “Keep” handed down in the Inca Empire in South America.It is said that in the Inca Empire where there were no characters, when they reigned a vast territory, they stockpiled the report corresponding to the census register such as the management of the people and the information of the tax with a Keep like this. The officer who had a special capability called the “Keep Kamayokku” was placed at every office, and decoded it. It is said that it may have been a memory device by a precise digital system like a pulse signal. Now, nobody has succeeded in decoding of it. It is vey interesting to hear the fact that the memory device of the same straw as this handed down the people in the Yaeyama district and Peru behind the earth. | |