EAST 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Shuri Castle, Cocktail Party, Japanese Americans
5 May 2019
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Molu of difference and mixing: rykyu and okinawan identity and creation. Major population of okinawans that moved to hawaii. Indigo paintings: the dying practices that start in okinawa. When okinawan islands: taxes shifted from rice to sugar(cane) There was a shift in the environment and the economy. Obon = august 15 traditional festival when ancestors come back and you can talk to them. Painting = faces are blurred and hard to see = in fact from the other world cultural portal and trying to incorporate that in their world. Cane fire: renewal and feels like the end of everything, rebirth and destruction, ambiguity. Haijichi : tattoos, okinawan custom to get tattoos as women when they got married. It was forbidden when they became part of japan = discrimnated against afterward = women tried to hide their hands all the time because of that =// association with peripheral culture.
