Art & Culture | Southern Wave Okinawan Music and Dance Society

Kajadihuu Bushi - The Okinawan New Year

Happy Lunar New Year! How do you celebrate the new year in your culture? While Western countries spend only a couple of days, many Asian...

Tancha Mē - Fishing Culture of Okinawa

Tancha Mē Bushi is a bright, joyful, and lively folksong. It is used in a popular folkdance Tancha Mē. In the dance, a pair of a man and...

Shima Uta - Remembering the Battle of Okinawa

The song Shima Uta has been loved by Okinawan and Japanese communities inside and outside Japan ever since it was released in 1993 by a...

Okinawan Music & Dance - Art for Resilience

Brief history of Okinawa and the role of music and dance in Okinawan people's lives.

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