うしじゃし : ushijashi | define meaning

Historical Ryukyuan attestations

• Lord Amherst's Embassy to China. With interesting particulars relative to the island of Lewchew, And the numerous hitherto undiscovered Islands on the Coast of Corea (1820), by Ellis, Abel and M'leod, records "[...] twisted into a neat little top-knot, is there retained by two fasteners, called camesachee and usisachee made either of gold, silver, or brass [...]; the former of these having a little star on the end of it, which points forward. [...] At the age of ten years the boys are entitled to the usisachee and at fifteen they wear both".