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Okinawan music collections on iTunes (it’s growing, slowly)
It was quite awhile ago when we found the wonderful Okinawan music colletion “Respect Records Presents Okinawa Best Song Collection” on iTunes and since then we’ve found two more. Titled “Okinawa Traditional,” (iTunes link) the 16-track collection from the High Wave label features top utasaa (Okinawan folk singer) like Seijin Noborikawa, Sadao China, Tetsuhiro Daiku,…
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King Records to release a 6-CD box set of Sadao China’s recordings
I heard about this upcoming release about a month or so ago but haven’t seen any big promotions of it—which is quite sad indeed. So we here at Karakui.com will do our part by promoting the King Records release of a 6-disc box set featuring music by utasaa (Okinawan folk singer) legend Sadao China. Titled…
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Wallpaper: Stereopony for “Smilife”
To commemorate the release of Stereopony’s latest song, “Smilife,” Sony Records has released a wallpaper featuring the single’s cover art. Download it here. (Via 壁紙fan!)
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27th Annual Okinawan Festival in Honolulu, Hawaii
Wow, it’s already that time of year? This year HUOA‘s Okinawan Festival, its 27th year, will take place on September 5th and 6th. As always, it’s a great place to learn more about the Okinawan culture (you’ll still need to check-out Karakui.com for your pop culture fix, tho 😛 ) and other neat stuff like…
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WordPress.com adds a url shortener
Great news. WordPress.com now has its own URL shortener! I think we’ll be using WP.me from now on instead of using twitterfeed and bit.ly on Twitter.
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Make your own pair of cute shisa dolls
I’m not quite the craft-y type but if I were, I’d make me a pair of these cute plush doll shīsā. So I’m posting this entry for the folks out there who know their way around yarn and needlework. There are step-by-step instructions (albeit in Japanese but there are pics that help) on the site…
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YouTube: AkisamiYOH, Young Okinawans of Hawaii on the ‘Tube
YOH (Young Okinawans of Hawaii) has a YouTube channel up called AkisamiYOH featuring bon dance and eisaa videos of their performances. Be sure to check it out and subscribe too. 🙂 AkisamiYOH’s YouTube channel
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Karakui.com Special: That actress? She’s from Okinawa.
I’ve been meaning to post an entry on this subject, actresses from Okinawa, for a very long time. If you haven’t noticed, we’re living in a very special time (well, especially for Okinawan pop culture folks) where it’s impossible not to find an actress from Okinawa on TV or on the big screen. I’ve managed…
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YouTube: “Tenyo Bushi” uploaded by champuru
Hawaii’s bon dance season is well underway and Donna (champuru) of DancingFools.org uploaded a clip on her YouTube channel: The Young Okinawans of Hawaii (YOH) team up with the Ukwanshin Kabudan at the Pearl City Hongwanji bon dance, August 7-8, 2009. Subscribe to champuru on YouTube. (Via @champuru.)
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Yasukatsu Oshima’s albums available on iTunes!
I’ve long, long, been a fan of utasaa (minyou singer) Yasukatsu Oshima and although I already own most of the albums in his discography, having his music readily available for other future fans on iTunes is simply awesome. I have to give a lot of props to whoever is in charge of promoting the singer…
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