The town was founded on March 20, 2006, by the merger of the towns of Katsuyama, Saigawa and Toyotsu, all from Miyako District.
Miyako Itō | Miyako |
Miyazaki Miyako is based on Miyazaki Masahiro, Eiga Danjuro based on Eiga Naoki, Chiba Kirino based on Chiba Masashi etc., even though there aren't any relations between the Bamboo Blade characters in regards to the real kendoka.
ISBN 4-901769-41-3 About half this book consists of quotations from interviews with Miyako, and the other half of color photographs by Hiroh Kikai.
A mysterious man Amawari, Documents of Wakou in Okinawa, A lovely Yaeyama girl, Nakasone Toyomiya in Miyako, Grand kumi stages of old Ryukyu, Poems of Southern Islands, The Bible translated into the Ryukyu language by Bernard Jean Bettelheim, On Konko-knshuu (Old Ryukyu language dictionary), Akainko, the first Okinawan music musician.
Katsuyama, Fukuoka, was a town located in Miyako District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.