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Richie

Music nerd, Mac user, blogger, baseball fan, kendōka, on/off Okinawan folk musician (don't ask), and loves eating gyoza.
Richie has written 801 posts for Karakui – Okinawan Pop Culture

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 36,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 13 sold-out performances for that many … Continue reading »

Oriental Faddah and Son

A smile. Whenever I pick up Lee Tonouchi’s Oriental Faddah and Son, I can’t help but smile. The book’s cover is nicely designed and at 152 pages, it should be a fast read (compared to the 925 pages in Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 which I’m also reading) but in reality, it’s not because I often find … Continue reading »

Tamagusuku Ryu Senjukai Hawaii’s Awamori Fest

Received an email heads up for Tamagusuku Ryu Senjukai Hawaii’s annual Awamori Fest, a benefit fundraiser for their Okinawan dance school (Tamagusuku Ryu Senjukai Frances Nakachi Ryubu Dojo). Here’s the information from the flyer for the event: The Awamori Fest event is held annually to raise funds for our Okinawan Dance School, Tamagusuku Ryu Senjukai … Continue reading »

Help Chinagu Eisa Hawaii by Eating

Ray from Chinagu Eisa Hawaii tipped me off to a way to help their club by eating! On Sunday, 20 November 2011, bring the flyer to any Panda Express or Hibachi-san restaurant on the island of Oahu and 20% of your purchase will be donated to the club. Go eat!

Living Spirit (via Voices of the Okinawan Spirit)

We are very happy to announce the summer 2011 issue of MANOA: Living Spirit: Literature & Resurgence in Okinawa. A companion volume to Voices from Okinawa (published in 2009), Living Spirit is a collection of compelling prose and poetry representative of the Okinawan renaissance that began in the 1960s. Katsunori Yamazato, who worked with us … Continue reading »

Application Submitted (via Sanshin Tuner)

Sanshin Tuner, my first application, has finally been submitted to the App Store. I hope a lot of people find this useful and I am looking forward to feedback. … Read More via Sanshin Tuner

Change is good

It’s been 5+ years here at Karakui.com and over a decade of Okinawan pop culture posts spread out throughout the Web. So, what now? Well, from today, you can find us at the brand-spanking new Karakui.net. Not to worry about this site (what we’re referring to as the dotcom) as it’ll still be here with … Continue reading »

Event: “Nuchi du Takara (Life is the Treasure)” in San Francisco, 6/18

Via Shari Tamashiro: Wesley Ueunten is organizing a free event on Saturday, 06.18 from 2 pm in the Japantown Peace Plaza with musicians, dancers, storytellers. Details are in the attached document (Press Release_Nuchi du Takara.doc). I’m coming out for a special performance of a storytelling program I researched and produced with Alton Chung, who is … Continue reading »

Follow @BonDanceHawaii on Twitter & become a FaceBook fan

Like bon dancing? Follow @BonDanceHawaii and like our FB page at http://on.fb.me/kitYiJ— Champuru (@champuru) June 11, 2011

It’s bon dance season!

Donna’s BonDance.com website has a schedule up for the 2011 bon dance season. I’m planning on attending a few with her Bon Dance Posse so maybe I’ll some of you there. There’s also an informative video about Obon and eisa up on BonDance.com so be sure to check it out. Here’s the link: What is … Continue reading »

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