7-8th century local people, custom and tradition @Shimane  𡷊根  Museum Fuki 款冬 (seen in photo 2)   has been promoted a Sediq tradition - an obvious Japanese influence. Mentioned  HERE .  Hypothesis Validation - it's time to look into validation values for the 21st century.  Before prolific 'unsubstantiated claims and inventions' lost theirs.  At least - stop and think about it. Painstaking hard work - yes. Ami/Yami - ‘People of the Sea’ 'People of the Coast' Sea or Ocean- Umi うみ  海 Shima - Island 𡷊 Shimane 𡷊根 Ask indigenous people today what their group name means - the standard answer is ‘People’ or the synonymous 'Truly Human' 'We' 'Human'. Amis, for example, also been claimed meaning ‘north’ or ‘slave’ under both indigenous and academic proposed ethnonym.  I reckon - much to do with umi うみ  海  - based on 1930s Japanese reports . And most possibly ‘mi’ means sea. People of the Sea. People of the Coast (Island). Shim...

The history of the Colchester oyster dates back to Roman times.  Off-season oyster beds. Smelly discarded shells. @Colchester Oyster Fishery 2023 At Horse-New-Year lunch, we talked about our mutual friend Dafydd’s new book - " The Twilight Years of Taiwan’s Sugar Railways" and conversations went quite interesting -  Hawaii’s Sugar Trains On Narrow-Gauge Rails We all think an amazing and relatively unknown fact is - Taiwan’s narrow-gauge railway built in 1907 adopted the (successful) transport method from Hawaii . Then I remembered a bottle of some  'Sugar from Northern Taiwan' I was shown at Kew Gardens London - Entry in 1882 by a Brit Thomas Watters (who also sent Formosa tea - entry in 1882).  And of course on the subject matter here is Tamsui's miniature railway system which served Tamsui-Sanzi (淡水 - 三芝) during Japanese colonial era.  Thomas Watters (1840-1901), who had joined the British Consular service in 1863, was Robert Swinhoe 's Consular Assistant a...

  How did this word ethatao (Dutch Georgius Candidius 1627) spread from South ( Siraya ) all across Western plains-indigenous ( Pazeh ) to North ( Basay/Ketagalan ) and East ( Amis/Kavalan ) over 100 years?  👉Because of the now extinct long white-hair dogs roaming in the village?? Ethatao  塔塔悠/ 達戈紋 (17-18 century) 悠/ 紋 is the weaving pattern  紋. Lower-Upper Catayo (or Etayu by 許's credible account)  -  E - tayu    ē-tayu .    ē  means lower  下   in Hokkien. I believe lower Etayu existed before upper. Whether lower (下 -   ē   in Hokkien ) word ' ē ' has something to do with the original E-thatao (17th century). Possible ... I don't know. Interesting, isn't it. READ 17th Century White Dog Hair, Red Zaitun Flower, Quanzhou Settlers and Plains Indigenous Georgius Candidius and  his wife   Saartje Specx (half Dutch half Japanese)

Beads (put on by servants) and Lily - Symbols of status, Egypt @The British Museum London I have since (2022 after Covid) discovered that LONDON is a great place for connecting Taiwan - for the cross-culturally minded.  Kew Gardens Needless to say, for my own case, an informal visit to Herbarium Library @Kew back in 2022 inspired Dr Cheng and I to co-author ‘ The Story of Taiwan Tea ’ which was published on the 80th anniversary of   ‘The Sinking of Shinsei-Maru.’ （ Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Shenjingwan Disaster - The Story of Taiwan Tea Published ） Purchase Note - 'The Story of Taiwan Tea ' link above is our US vendor. For academic purchase (bulk orders) outside Taiwan, substantial discount can be authorized by primary author Dr Cheng. For one copy at a time "authors' copies" now available for academic purchase at a substantial discount plus shipping.  If interested, contact me. Suggested Read Plant Collectors' Notebooks 採集人野帳 - Taiwan's ...