Okinawa Day 7: Kahi Meguri Tour

Today was a special day.  Today's tour was one of the selling points of going on this trip.  Our sanshin sensei, Choichi Terukina used to work at a travel agency and occasionally did this special tour.   Kahi Meguri means stone viewing...and that's exactly what we did.

These large, monument-sized rocks with etched poems on it are located all over Okinawa.  At times, these poems would evolve to songs and those songs evolved to dances.  I believe we viewed eight sites all over the island.  It wonderful to hear the stories behind each engraving, especially to songs that I knew or knew how to play.