2011 Okinawan Festival Chair's Message
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www.huoa.org July/August 2011 Issue #133 Circulation 11,000 2011 Okinawan Festival Chair’s Message By Cyrus Tamashiro watchiya Masaasandoo! Great officers of the Okinawa Hawaii entertainment! Excitement! Kyokai. Entertainment will also K Pageantry! The months of feature the top Okinawan music, planning and anticipation will bear dance and taiko groups from Oahu, fruit on September 3 and 4, when the Maui and the Big Island. inspired members of clubs that comprise Be sure to visit Heiwa Dori, named the Hawaii United Okinawa Association after the famous marketplace in will present the 29th Okinawan Festival Naha, to pick up imported food at Kapiolani Park. products. Machiya-Gwa (Country At the first meeting of the 2011 Store) will carry new items including Okinawan Festival Committee, club sweet potato lavosh, green tea representatives were asked to come up with suggestions for our pretzels, yudofu and tsukemono. annual event. Brainstorming resulted in great ideas, including Hanagi Machiya-Gwa will be some that we are happy to introduce at this year’s Festival. Norman stocked with plants to purchase and Nakasone and Geno Oshiro independently came up with Taco take home. Stop in at the bustling Rice, a dish invented in Okinawa, which combines the main Ti Jukuishina-Mishimun tent where ingredients of the Tex-Mex taco, but layered on a bed of rice. Taco Rice is served in artisans and crafters will present their designs. Don’t forget to buy an Okinawan izakaya, independent restaurants, and fast food chains throughout Okinawa, and in Festival T-shirt at the T-shirt tent! Buy an exciting new cookbook in the Capital certain areas of mainland Japan. Taco Rice will be available on Saturday and Sunday Campaign Tent. Also visit the Cultural Exhibition, Bonsai Exhibition and Children’s as a small meal, perfect for “grazers” who want to taste a little bit of everything at Games. This year, we will also be trying another new idea, a Tsunahiki (Tug-of –War) festivals. Tournament. The student councils of selected public and private elementary, middle What do you get when you make funnel cake with modified andagi batter? and high schools have been invited to participate in this competition. They are being FUNDAGI! Karen Kuba-Hori’s inspiration will debut on Saturday night at the encouraged to learn about Okinawa and bring their families to enjoy Okinawan Okinawan Festival’s Bon Dance. Ellen Higa, Dave Higa and George Bartels, Jr., have culture in a fun setting. put their heads together to formulate this new dish invented in Hawaii! Dusted with Recently, KIKU-TV aired a television powdered sugar, Fundagi is a great item to snack on while watching the bon dance series from Japan called “Hataraki Man.” or resting between songs. The principal character in this program is a The HUOA Okinawan Festival continues to feature the cuisine of Okinawa with woman editor of a magazine who is so driven dishes such as Pig’s and focused on her work that her colleagues Feet Soup, Champuru, nickname her “Hataraki Man,” which means Okinawan Soba and in working man or workaholic. The dedication my opinion the world’s that this editor demonstrates reminds me best Andagi! Local of the 2,000+ hardworking volunteers of the innovations include Okinawan Festival who tirelessly devote their Oki Dog and Andadog. time to plan and carry out the many functions You can also enjoy of our event. To the committee chairs, club 2010 Photo Contest -Ohana: Honorable Mention Photo by: Stephen Claro Yakitori, Yakisoba, members, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, barbecued chicken, construction and cleanup crew, resource people, entertainers, vendors, HUOA staff shave ice and a host of snack items. and community volunteers, thank you for being the heart and soul of the Okinawan On stage, we are happy to welcome back from Okinawa famed recording artist Festival. Our Issei forebears would be proud of your work ethic, a value that helped Mamoru Miyagi and rising star Yoko Hizuki. Also coming from Okinawa to them to overcome hardship, and then thrive in a new country. To all the Hataraki perform is the Leinani Hula Group. Special guests from Okinawa will include Men and Women of the Okinawan Festival, Ippee Nifee Deebiru! Inside This Issue 2011 Okinawan Festival ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Page 1 President’s Message •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Page 2 Nonprofit Nonprofit Org. 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Mahalo! Uchinanchu is our voice — the voice of the Hawaii United Okinawa Association, s potlight: gary Jitchaku its members, and the “home” we all built together, the Hawaii Okinawa Center. By sharing information and experiences, Uchinanchu keeps us connected as a family, e’re fast approaching the biggest event of the throughout the Festival period and especially during the breakdown on Monday th Hana Nuuzi – dedicated to preserving, sharing and perpetuating our Okinawan cultural heritage. Wyear, the 29 Okinawan Festival at Kapiolani when all unused supplies and storable equipment are returned to HOC. Their work Magnificent Rainbow… Every dollar donated — along with the valuable income from advertising - helps Park on September 3 and 4. Thanks to the support, greatly helps the Festival Transportation crew, who was led until last year by the late pride and spirit of the community, the Okinawan Connecting Our Precious Past offset the cost of publishing Uchinanchu. HUOA sends a sincere ippee nifee deebiru Jimmy Iha, a mentor of the Chatan-Kadena Chojin Kai and the Wahiawa Kyoyu Kai. to the following donors. Mahalo for keeping Uchinanchu alive and thriving. Festival has earned the distinction of being one of Gary is usually on-site from Wednesday before the Festival working elbow to to a Bright Future. Uchinanchu Donors June 1 to July 15, 2011 Hawaii’s largest and longest-running ethnic festi- elbow with the Festival construction crew, too. He says it just amazes him how s you can tell by the articles, this is the Okinawan Festival issue of Marion Akamine George & Myrtle Nakasato vals. The backbone of the Festival is a consortium of year after year, familiar faces commit to laying the foundation of the grounds and Uchinanchu, which means the Festival is right around the corner. Stanley & Dorothy Arakaki Stella S. Nishibayashi volunteers involving leadership and faithful grass- stage…this means that Gary mirrors his own sentiments about the pre-Festival crew (Probably less than 30 days away as you’re reading this.) A big mahalo goes Millie Arakaki Mitsuru Owara roots members and their friends who work hard because he’s “one of the guys,” too! A and in harmony to introduce Okinawan culture to Without any prompting, the qualities of chimugukuru and yuimaaruu were instilled out to Festival General Chair, Cyrus Tamashiro, and Festival Food Chair, Dwight Vivian Arakawa Mr. & Mrs Henry Shimomura our community and visitors to our islands. in him by his issei paternal and maternal gradnparents, Sojo and Ushi Jitchaku and Ikehara, and all of the many dedicated volunteers who have been diligently work- Roy S. Higa Harriet Takaesu Year after year, unbeknownst to many, there is an Choso and Tsuru Takara, and his parents, Charles and Fumie (Takara). Perhaps hav- ing over the past several months preparing for the upcoming Labor Day weekend. Mitsuko Higa Misao Takara We try to do a few new things each year in an effort to keep the Festival “fresh” unspoken force that joins everyone’s hands and hearts together to get the job done ing lived in an environment of a three-generation household, Gary has been fueled Frederick Higa Alice Tamayoshi as successfully as possible. It’s a combination of the precious principles carried in to fulfill the needs of the Festival as well as serving as Chatan’s treasurer for many and this year will be no different. I won’t mention any of them here, but you’ll know Anonymous Busuke Toguchi what they are by reading the articles in this issue. the identity