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Dec 11, 2011

The trip to Kuroshima island, Okinawa

 I'm a dyed in a wool freak on tripping to tropical islands like Hawaii, Maldives, and Okinawa. The luminescent green and blue ocean with white sand and various colorful flowers can relax and energize me. And local foods and cultural events and festivals are also attractive. I trip once a year to those islands using accumulated mileage points for free air tickets and at this time I went to Kuroshima island and Taketomi island, which are located in the southeast of the Okinawa main island. I would like to share some interesting videos of local festivals and foods on this blog.

 I'll show you videos of a local festival in Taketomi island, which has a long history dedicated to the God of a local Shinto shrine. You can see many dancers dressed up as samurai warriors and ancient farmers. Most of old festivals in Japan are held to pray for bumper harvest including the festival in Taketomi island.

The 1st dance by samurai warriors


The dance by female dancers dressed up as ancient farmer.


The dance by female oracles.

1 comment:

Mark Willis said...

The warm tropical islands with waving palm trees and miles of silver sand seem such a long way off for me here in the grey of December in the UK. But they give me something to dream about!! Hope you had a wonderful holiday. You obviously saw some very interesting things.