Nakijin Calling
Apologies for the slow posting lately -- I had a freelance deadline this week, a guest coming to town, a fiasco involving a lost iPod and if I had my dogs here I'm sure they would have eaten my homework.
Still, lots to write about. In my ongoing quest to visit Okinawan cultural sites, I headed to Nakijin Castle this week. A full post on that will be forthcoming, but I wanted to post this:
This is taken in the Nakijin cultural center. Both of these items -- the dice and the arrowheads -- were carved from dugong bones. Just another example of how intertwined the Okinawan culture has been with the dugong for hundreds of years.
