nathsketch:
Back to your Kokuto life, that’s true, the Japanese migration movement was very intense here in the 1880s. I didn’t know Okinawa was an independent nation, that’s very interesting.
We have a very large Japanese (and Okinawan) community here and plenty of our cities have entire neighborhoods populated by their descendants. It’s so nice, I love visiting there any chance I get. Feels like a different world <3
I want to say Brazil was offering some sort of deal to immigrants back then, which is why a large group went. I know they have some small towns that are mostly Okinawan, so it makes sense they have neighborhoods in bigger cities. Part of the reason we moved to Augusta was Mom knew a small circle of Okinawan ladies.
Most people don't and there's been a lot of assimilation, the language is dying out. There's not a lot of history or fiction out there. One of the cool things was they used to have a female priestess class, including a royal priestess. Plus they had female shamans / fortune tellers. My grandmother took my mom to a fortuneteller when she was a kid.