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7月18日の県民とのクッキング交流会に向けて、令和8年度県費生と元県費生メンバーで、ボリビアのアンティクーチョとハワイのアンダードッグの試食会を行いました🌎✨ 「移民の味」の企画、募集開始から1日も経たないうちに満員となりました🤩👏🏻 たくさんのご応募、本当にありがとうございます！ みんなで楽しく作りながら、気づけばアンティクーチョもアンダードッグもあっという間に完食！😆🍴 当日は、ご応募いただいた皆さまと交流しながら、楽しい時間を過ごせるよう準備を進めています✨ 7月18日をお楽しみに！ #沖縄映像センター #県費留学生 #移民の味
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Many more memories not pictured, but thank you Q1✨ #Q1 #ᴘʜᴏᴛᴏᴅᴜᴍᴘ
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Three years ago, I left Hawaiʻi for California to attend my dream graduate program. In that time, I’ve loved in ways that held me—and I’ve lost in ways I’m still learning how to carry. Somewhere in between, I became a maker my younger self once imagined from far away. And I know, without question, I didn’t get here on my own. From building sculptures to formatting files, wiring speakers to rewriting the same line over and over—every part of this work carries someone else inside of it. This body of work, the most ambitious pieces I’ve made so far, is held together by a love that stays. And now, as I prepare to leave school, at a time when the world feels heavier by the day, I found myself returning to something seemingly simple and impossible—to make a show about love. Not a utopic or flattened kind of love.
Not the kind that smooths things over. But a love shaped by contradiction. By grief. By memory.
A love that doesn’t look away.
A love that persists anyway. Everything I carry, I carry because of all of you. Mahalo nui loa.
Thank you. I love you. Thank you. I love you. Thank you. I love you. The show will be up until the 24th—just one more week—and I’m not sure when all of these pieces will live together again, so I would really love to share this work with you while it’s here. More pictures to come. The @aapiartsnetwork will be also hosting an artist walkthrough / talk story this Sunday at 1pm (DM for info). And if you’d like a more personal walkthrough, please feel free to reach out. And lastly link to preorder a copy of the book I published for this show available in my bio 😚🫣
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何とかの📸ダンプ
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March 4th is Sanshin no Hi 三線の日- celebrating the iconic three string instrument of Okinawa that truly carries the spirit and essence of the Okinawan culture. Over the weekend, I gathered with @oaamensore where we had our monthly gathering/potluck but also celebrated and learned about this special day. Big shout out to the Shimanchu brothers n sisters I keep seeing when I’m there hehe I appreciate yallll. Also when I say Okinawan I meant mean Shimanchu or Uchinanchu :) Also yall my kanji for Sanshin was wrong lmfaoaoaoaoao don’t come for me it’s 三線 whoooopsy 間違って三線を三振で書いたゴメン w
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This is @toritoguchi and today (February 19) is Day of Remembrance. It is a day where we reflect upon the consequences of Executive Order 9066, and one that I didn't grow up knowing about until I was in college. In remembering today, we want to reflect on the struggle and loss within our communities and how that dehumanization and discrimination is entangled with past and current struggles of various people(s) and groups both within the United States and outside of its borders. I'm sharing my great-grandpa Toguchi's War Relocation Authority records and personal family images from within and after camp. My great-grandpa Toguchi, and great-grandma Toguchi, were born on Oʻahu in 1914. My great-grandpa went to Okinawa at the 2 years old, and remained there for 12 years, returning home in 1928. My great-grandma growing up her entire life on Hawaiʻi island and Oʻahu. When Puʻuloa (Pearl Harbor) was attacked, he was married and had three children. In Hawaiʻi, he worked on a pineapple plantation, with dairy, and worked as a cook and baker. For whatever reason, unknown to my family and I, my great-grandpa was arrested and taken to Sand Island on March, 1942. WRA archives shared that he showed some resentment about his internment at Sand Island. My family members were not educated nor important community leaders. On Dec. 27, 1942, my great-grandparents and their children were sent on the SS Lurline with more than 430 other Hawaiʻi Japanese and Okinawans to the Jerome concentration camp in Arkansas. Although our communities weren't taken en masse, the community in Hawaiʻi were incarcerated both locally at home in US Justice camps like Honouliuli, Kilauea, etc., and taken to the Continental US to WRA and US Justice camps on various different ships. They stayed in Jerome until 1944. There, he was given the Loyalty Questionnaire, where he answered "No" to the infamous Questions 27 and 28. I have included a short transcription from an interview, before he was denied clearance to leave, and sent to Tule Lake. My family lived in Tule Lake until 1946, and returned home in March 1946.
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Back in the motherland 🌺 - またね！
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🌀Ryukyu Aizome is the traditional indigo dying technique of present day Okinawa This indigo dying practice is unique bc the indigo plant is found particularly in the northern part of the island. The dye also is made with a natural fermentation process involving seashell ash, awamori (okinawan distilled spirit), and syrup to get its blue color. This workshop was hella fun and makes me excited to do more crafts to learn more about Ryukyu culture. 📍Okinawa Craft Industry Promotion Center in Naha There’s also other places all over the island that do this workshop so shop around and see what ya like🌀🌀🌀
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bye bye 2024✌🏼
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2024 I didn’t really want to make a year recap post, not because this year was bad for me… but kind of the opposite. This year brought so much to me: My sister got pregnant, I went surfing for the first time, I moved again, I protested, I started to work out consistently, I started to go to the club alone, I started to enjoy dancing alone, I wrote more than I expected, I gave my first eulogy, I let my feelings get the best of me, I cried and laughed so hard. I feel so lucky. As I reflect on this year I am reminded that all of which I am grateful for, can be taken away - as it as it has been taken away for many. This isn’t the happiest end of the year post, for one that has given me so much. But I think gratitude manifest itself in many ways, and this year my gratitude exists as a prayer. That more people would come home to this joy, that more people feel safe, and can celebrate the new year.
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Balanço Okinawa 2024 As expectativas eram altas, mas as chances das coisas darem erradas, também. Fui com fé na ideia de que “em Okinawa, coisas mágicas acontecem” e não me decepcionei. Muito pelo contrário - fui surpreendido em todos os aspectos. Se por um lado, meu maior medo era de que tanto a exposição quanto a palestra fossem um fracasso, o que aconteceu foi que, não apenas tudo deu muito certo, como também despertou o interesse em muitos dos expectadores, que “lotaram” minhas horas vagas com reuniões e conversas a respeito de raízes familiares. Também rendeu duas aparições na TV japonesa em matérias diferentes, e até mesmo o reconhecimento de um cliente de um restaurante de Naha. 🤣 Meu segundo maior medo era de que os familiares (principalmente okinawanos) não se animassem muito com o encontro Okinawa-Brasil. No entanto, foi o oposto disso. O fato de conseguir me comunicar em japonês, possibilitou conversas profundas com os parentes, aumentando 1000x nossa conexão. As crianças também tornaram-se amigas utilizando o inglês como ponto de intersecção. Já estamos planejando o próximo encontro, dessa vez no Brasil. Recebi vários “textões” dos parentes okinawanos, comovidos com tudo o que aconteceu na última semana, o que me deixou extremamente feliz. Além de tudo, consegui visitar o território sagrado de Omine, onde vivia minha família antigamente, e que atualmente é de acesso restrito do governo japonês. Pude encontrar pessoalmente amigos japoneses e conhecer outros. E, como não podia deixar de ser, várias coincidências aconteceram novamente. Todo o intenso trabalho de 1 ano e meio, planejando e construindo a exposição e palestra, estudando japonês e organizando a viagem ficou ridiculamente pequeno diante do retorno gigante que obtive. Eu não poderia e não teria a cara de pau de pedir um presente como esse para comemorar meus 50 anos, mas foi isso que ganhei. E, como disse na palestra, tudo isso ainda é fruto do esforço feito lá atrás, há muito tempo, pelos antepassados. A gratidão só aumenta. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/lnews/okinawa/20241218/5090030289.html https://www3.nhk.or.jp/lnews/okinawa/20241220/5090030309.html
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Tori! #seoul #newyork #2024 #2018?
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