The Okinawan Textile Lecture on August 9 (2018) was a success. The room was filled with the audience, and 67 people watched the event remotely! The Okinawa Collection and other 2 co-sponsors–the Center for Okinawan Studies and the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa–thank the speakers/artists from Okinawa, Eric Wada, the translator, and the audience in the Library and the participants who watched the event remotely.
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Photo above: Ms. Mieko Taira, Kijoka bashōfu. | 喜如嘉の芭蕉布の平良美恵子さん。
Photo above: Ms. Hiroko Matayoshi (left) and Mr. Eric Wada (translator) | 読谷山ミンサーの又吉次子さん（左）と御冠船歌舞団のエリック・ワダさん（通訳）。
Photo above: Ms. Ritsuko Shiroma (right) on Haebaru hanaui & Ryukyu kasuri | 南風原花織の説明中の城間律子、琉球絣事業協同組合理事長（右）。
Prof. Okishige Maeshiro at Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts (right) on Ryukyu indigo | 沖縄県立芸術大学美術工芸学部教授、真栄城興茂教授（右）。
Photo above: Ms. Sachiko Yafuso (right) on bingata/katachiki | 琉球びんがた事業協同組合顧問、伝統工芸士の屋冨祖幸子さん（右）。
The artists from Okinawa (photo above) | 沖縄からハワイ大図書館へいらした方がた。
Here is the revised list of speakers and their expertise who spoke on August 9, 2018.
SPEAKERS/ARTISTS (corrections are in bold and in purple)
- Ms. Mieko Taira / 平良美恵子氏 (芭蕉布/Bashōfu)
- Ms. Hiroko Matayoshi / 又吉弘子氏 (読谷山ミンサー, 読谷山花織/Yuntanza minsā, Yuntanza hanaui)
- Ms. Ritsuko Shiroma / 城間律子氏 (琉球絣・南風原花織/Ryukyu kasuri, Haebaru hanaui)
- Mr. Okishige Maeshiro / 真栄城興茂氏 (琉球藍染/Ryukyu aizome)
- Ms. Sachiko Yafuso / 屋冨祖幸子氏 (琉球びんがた/Ryukyu bingata/Ryukyu katachiki）
TRANSLATOR
Mr. Eric Wada, co-founder of Ukwanshin Kabudan / 御冠船歌舞団
Sanshin Music Player
Mr. Norman Kaneshiro, who teaches sanshin (三線, a three-string Okinawan music instrument) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
RESOURCES
[A] The print resources on Okinawan Textile
Textiles across the seas [= 織の海道]
[001] Yaeyama, Miyako hen [=八重山・宮古編] (2005)
[002] Okinawa hontō, Kumejima hen [=沖縄本島・宮古編] (2004)
[003] Amami, Kagoshima, Kurume hen [=奄美・鹿児島・久留米編] (2005)
[004a] Kasuri: from its origins to its designs: Okinawa, Amami, Kyūshū (2007)
[004b] Kasuri mon’yōshū : Okinawa, Amami, Kagoshima, Kurume = The exquisite ikat patterns and their designs / 絣文様集: 沖縄 · 奄美 · 鹿児島 · 久留米 = The exquisite ikat patterns and their designs (2007)
[B] Online resources
<1>Kijoka bashōfu / 喜如嘉芭蕉布:
<2> Yuntanza minsā, Yuntanza hanaui / 読谷山ミンサー、読谷山花織:
- https://www.thehawaiiherald.com/my-hawaii-yomitan-weavers-planning-hawaii-demo/
- http://www.yomitanhanaori.com/user_data/pdf/booklet.pdf (PDF)
<3> Haebaru hanaui, Ryukyu kasuri / 南風原花織・琉球絣:
- http://ryukyukasuri.com/?page_id=257
- http://www.town.haebaru.lg.jp.e.ih.hp.transer.com/kankou/docs-kankou/2015020200031/
- “Ryukyu Kasuri Kumiai ni chiikishō: Haebaru hanaui o denshō, dentō bunka Pōrashō,” 14 Aug 2017, The Ryukyu Shimpo, https://ryukyushimpo.jp/news/entry-554994.html. （「琉球絣組合に地域賞: 南風原花織を伝承 伝統文化ポーラ賞」、琉球新報、2017年8月14日。）
<4> Ryukyubigasuri / 琉球美絣
- “Maeshiro Okishige (Ryukyubigasuri),” Ginza Waki, https://www.ginza-waki.jp/content/wakibito1.
- “Maeshiro Okishige,” Nihon Kōgeikai, https://www.nihonkogeikai.or.jp/works/656.
- N.s. “Maeshiro Okishige: Aizome kara sukashimiru Okinawa no kaze.” (in Japanese). April 1999. Gekkan Bijutsu, 25(4): 130-134.
<5> Katachiki (bingata)
- http://www.ryukyu-bingata.com/contents/bingata.html
- http://www.ryukyu-bingata.com/contents/bingata_2.html
- Bingata : Ryukyu Ōchō no iro to katachi : Okinawa fukki 40-shūnen kinen = Bingata : colors and shapes of the Ryukyu Dynasty : commemorating the 40th anniversary of the reversion of Okinawa to Japan / [kikaku kōsei Okinawa Kenritsu Hakubutsukan Bijutsukan [and others] ; henshū Niwa Rieko, Igaki Mariko, Ikeda Fumi]. / 紅型 : 琉球王朝のいろとかたち : 沖縄復帰40周年記念 = Bingata : colors and shapes of the Ryukyu Dynasty : commemorating the 40th anniversary of the reversion of Okinawa to Japan / [企画・構成沖縄県立博物館・美術館 [and others] ; 編集丹羽理恵子, 井垣万里子, 池田芙美]. ( [Tokyo] : Santorī Bijutsukan, 2012.)
