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Eisa Dance - Okinawa
How I wish I will be able to see with my own eyes, the Japanese folk music and dance would be redeemed to praise His Mighty name, rather than for Shinto Festive.
...and the ransomed of the Lord will return.They will enter Zion with singing!everlasting joy will crown their heads.Gladness and joy will overtake them,and sorrow and sighing will flee away. Isaiah35:10
Notice that the influence of Okinawa is also in Hawaii
Sponsored by the Hawaii United Okinawan Association, the annual Okinawan Festival has been held each year on Saturday and Sunday of the Labor Day weekend since 1982. Recognized as the largest cultural event in Hawaii, the festival draws between 40,000 and 50,000 people to Kapiolani Park in the middle of Waikiki. At the festival, visitors experience a small glimpse into the diverse beauty of the Okinawan people, her culture and arts.
Ryuku Island, Japan
Some of the southern Japanese islands are famous for their beautiful "star sand." These grains are the shells of microscopic, single-celled animals that are found in abundance throughout our oceans.
国立沖縄戦没者墓苑
平和祈念公園は、過去の大戦で最大の激戦地となった糸満市摩文仁地区にあり、平和祈念資料館、平和祈念堂、平和の礎などが整備されています。園内には国立沖縄戦没者墓苑を中心とし、各都道府県、自治体、遺族会などの慰霊碑が数多く建立されております。
One playing Shamisen, one singing
Japanese shamisen, is thought to somewhat similar to a banjo, a four strings instrument, which is Africa origin.
Sanshin
sanshin, a three-stringed Okinawan instrument, closely related to the Chinese sanxian
Okinawa Pottery
The people of Okinawa maintain a strong tradition of pottery
石敢当
A protection to Okinawan
Karate
Okinawa's most famous cultural export is karate, probably a product of the close ties with, and influence of China on Okinawan culture. Karate is thought to be a synthesis of Chinese kung fu with traditional Okinawan martial arts.
a holy card designed to remember the 26 martyrs in Nagasaki
First of persecution, 26 believers were crucified, and thousands died as matyrs. 1597. More abandoned their faith.
Douzaki Church, Kyushu
250 years of ruthless suppression in Chrisitianity.
Nakadori Island, Kyushu
The fewer churches per population ratio in Japan while compare with western Japan.
Praying Samurai
photograph by Joe Ozawa
Memorial of Francis Xavier, Nagasaki
The longest and deepest roots for Christianity in Japan. (Francis Xavier, 1549)
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