No.332 Monthly Yaima April 2022 issue

"Kurbasa and Wang Jiuyun"

"There used to be a tool called a kurubasha. It was made by cutting seven notches into a pine tree or other material and pulling it with a water buffalo to level rice fields. It is said that a Taiwanese man named Wang Jiu-gong brought this tool to Yaeyama along with a water buffalo before the war..."

It's not just pineapples and buffalo that have come to Yaeyama from neighboring Taiwan.
Let's explore the lives of Taiwanese immigrants in Yaeyama and the history of Yaeyama and Taiwan through the eyes of a Taiwanese man named Wang Jiugueng.