I first met Yoshitaka Watanabe 渡邉義孝 (a master architect who has visited Taiwan many times and published books on heritage buildings and preservations) in Port Moji 門司港 Kyushu in March.  Last week on knowing he is in Taiwan again for a book project - I contacted him and asked to arrange so I can give him the tea book I co-authored.  We met and in return he gave me a box of famous lemon cake from Setoda Hiroshima. These cakes  are really yummy - see HERE . Chapter 9 "So what happened after Keelung became the Port of Import-Export of Taiwan? Seto refers to Seto Inland Sea  瀬戸内海 which rings the bell concerning "The Story of Taiwan Tea".  I checked and was reminded that -  "The first two-way shipping lane between Japan and Taiwan originated from Kobe, then ships would travel through Seto Inland Sea  瀬戸内海 and arrive in Port Moji 門司港. Hikawa Maru  ( 氷川丸 ) I messaged Watanabe Sensei that how interesting connections between my tea book and his lemon cake...

What etymology I get from this 1885 map -  1.  Taokas  Table + Techkham 桌崁/蓋  2. Plateau -    Shangping 上坪  Hsinchu Upper Plateau Spazi 十八兒社  (Atayal) 3. Tango - reserved area  Tribus  Tango - reserves indigenous area Saisiyat north and south  Saisiyat  大隘 da'ai  and 東河 tung-he HERE   4. Smangus (Territories des Sauvages) Atayal .  Smangus - Pusu Qhuni (Seediq/Truku)  5. Kim- Qing/Manchu   Kim-paoli 金包 里 =  Qing -  p arián   清包 里 HERE   HERE   HERE   HERE   HERE

Michael Turton's recent Taipeitimes article raised a few subject matters I have looked at over the last number of years. To which I comfortably relate and ready to comment. "The indigenous ‘culture’ we are offered is truncated, impoverished, unrepresentative and even worse: predictable" (Turton. Taipeitimes) Indigenous promotion/tourism in Taiwan, in my opinion, is unusual . It's done wrapped in a bubble. The intensity is unusual.  Here are a couple of example -  Salami slicing tactics is unusual - A result of desperate attempt of separating and re-grouping something similar into something different.  And a result of keeping everyone happy. No one get left-out and no one complain. Encouragement and indulgence in producing 'made-ups' is unusual.  While most made-ups are harmless and intended to attract and generate international interests -  CAUTION - once these international interests are collected, there will be rightful and curious-minded peoples qu...

Quelang (Keelung) and  Qalang  or Qulijat    (with a number of indigenous variations) should all be the same -  meaning 'Fence' ' 'Territories' 'Protected Land' aka  圍 欄. The 'Q' initial appears a European (Religious) impact (as in Atayal and Paiwan's case).  Indigenous use - Sometimes 'K' sometimes without, sometimes replaced with something else - doesn't matter, the origin should be the same  圍欄   or related. NOT indigenous language but Chinese/Hokkien in origin. More HERE  ,  HERE ,  HERE  and HERE . Naxi Yunnan -  Same 'territories' concept as with Naxi  Yunnan minority.  甑糕 photo taken in Yunnan. The origin of  甑.

  (I) Root Word (Linguistic Origin) Territoires des sauvages (territories of the savages ) Sauvages (Savages) evolved into Smangus under Indigenous interpretation and revitalization. (II) Root Word (Secondary) 櫟  Quercus rugosa (銳葉高山 櫟 ) Smangus evolved into a type of tree  櫟 under indigenous interpretation and revitalization. (III) Indigenous Result Smangus - God's tribe - Atayal Pusu Qhuni - Tree  ( 櫟)  -covered  boulders - Where Seediq emerged in the beginning of time Source Truly Human. Scott Simon (IV) Boulders, Weaving, and Religious Impact. HERE Yuma Taru     Lihang Workshop (野桐工坊) re-build the Atayal weaving tradition with   羅麥瑞修女   ( Maryta Laumann).   (V) Other loanwords used for Atayalic revitalization examples  -  Bale (Germanic)  sama (Hakka)  samat (Hakka)  hu (Chinese/Hokkien)  qcu (Chinese/Hokkien) (VI) This post is also Note 130 HERE .  -------------------------------------...