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Dance and the Kagura Dance.
The Eisa involves taiko
drums, folk songs, chants and
whistles, originally performed
as a way to give spirits a good
send-off.
The Kagura is a form of
music and dance dedicated to
the Shinto gods. Actors with
masks, swords and dragon cos-
tumes danced while musicians
played drums, flutes and other
instruments for dramatic effect.
“We want to bring all the
cultures to you, the food, the
Station residents make sushi during the happiness and everything to-
Japanese American Society’s 60th Annual gether in this community,” said Shibazaki
Culture Festival. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance in his closing remarks to the audience.
Cpl. Carlos Jimenez)
“And to extend out and make friends
with the Japanese community.”
opportunity to pound rice in an usu, a JAS’s mission is to strengthen the
large wooden bowl, with a kine (a pestal bonds of friendship and understanding
used with the usu) to make mochi, or between Americans and Japanese locals.
rice cakes. Mochi-tsuki is an important “This base is strategically important
Japanese traditional event in preparation to both the American and Japanese people
A volunteer for the Japanese Ameri- for the new year. and our government,” said U.S. Marine
can Society teaches an American child Tables were then set together where Corps Col. Richard F. Fuerst, command-
how to write “Rainbow” in calligraphy people made and ate a long sushi roll. ing officer of MCAS Iwakuni. “We want
during the festival. (U.S. Marine Corps photo The final two acts of the festival were to continue to foster that relationship and
by Lance Cpl. Carlos Jimenez)
dance performances: the Eisa Okinawan the Japanese American Society does that.”

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