Chinen Castle Ruins 知念城跡
Two castles side by side: rough stones in one, squared blocks in the other.
Gusuku of the lord of Chinen, sung in the anthology Omoro Sōshi. The eastern enclosure is dated to the end of the twelfth century, the western one to the second half of the fifteenth; the excavations begun in 2002 have yielded pottery, imported porcelain and metal objects concentrated between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. It was restored in the eighteenth century under King Shō Kei. It has been a National Historic Site since 15 May 1972.
Okinawa
久美山, 具志堅, 知念
