Wordless Wednesday SEP 28 2016

Girls Pickin' and Grinnin' at the Ishikawa Eisa Matsuri

Good Old Traditional Okinawan Music

 

 

It could be considered Okinawan folk music.  It's called Mineo, in the local language.

If you don't start stomping your feet and clapping hands, there's something wrong with you.

 My recommendation, would be, go visit a doctor before you're totally lifeless.

The girls can't help smiling while singing and, they look over my way.

The camera is mounted on a tripod so, it doesn't bounce all around.

Then, I push the shutter button with the finger of one hand.

Meanwhile, my feet and the other hand are, dancing all over the place !

Sweet Classic Sabani Boat I Stumbled Upon

Must Be Hundreds of Years Old

 

 

First, take a look at what is usually found in an Okinawa museum.

This is one of the traditional boats, called a sabani.

It has lots of the old items used for sailing and fishing, on display inside the boat.

 Sometimes, the craft is an original one, cleaned up and restored for display.

Other ones, I've seen, are reproductions or models, made for the museum.

When you examine the construction, the sides are made of wooden planks.

And, they are joined together with wooden dovetails.

This antique looking sabani, I spotted, is like no other sabani, I have ever seen.

So, I walked around and looked at it from several angles.

The boat appears to be made out of one, solid piece of wood.

Back in the good old days, you could get away with making a boat from a single tree.

People around the world used to make dugout canoes out of logs.

Whether they burned the inside of the log or, carved it by hand, they hollowed it out somehow.

On this one, you can feel and see the tool-marks on the exterior.

Knowing how rare it is to find a sabani like this, I'd put it in a glass case.

If it stays outdoors, like that much longer, I know what will happen.

Somebody will get a bright idea and, convert it into a planter, for their flowers !

5 More Photos from the 2014 Zamami-jima Sailing Sabani Race

Catching up on the processing of photos from this race may take awhile.

This boat, with the yellow sails caught my attention, the night before the race.

 A sabani with an outrigger, I had seen before.

But, it was the first time, I had ever seen one with two sails.

They seem to move a lot faster than a single-sail sabani boat.

But, I bet, it takes twice as long to learn how to sail them.