Murasaki Mura

Murasaki Mura is an old Okinawan Village.  It was built in 1992 as a set for a TV drama Ryukyu no Kaze - the wind of the Ryukyus.  It now is a place for tourists to visit to see an old style village and enjoy making traditional Okinawan crafts.

This is a road way.  I think they built walls around all yards.  In fact, they still do, they just are solid concrete.  It keeps things from feeling very open.

The kids are posing with various Shisa made by local artists.

They let the kids practice their Kanji.  These brushes are made from that nut type thing sitting on the table.  It is local, but since everything is in Japanese we don't always come away with all of the information.

In this one area you could make your own Kaleidoscope if you wanted.  They had a large Kaleidoscope set up so you could see how it worked.  The kids thought it was pretty cool.

Grahm wanted to make a glass.  Ryukyu glass is unique to this area and is pretty cool.  We have a few glass ornaments for our Christmas tree.  They walked Grahm through the whole process while I am on pins and needles worrying about how hot in the glass is.

Charlotte and Jayce decided to make their own Shisas.  Jayce wanted to make it from clay and Charlotte wanted to paint a finished one.  While they were busy creating them Tennyson and Grahm explored the garden and blew giant bubbles.  Charlotte picked out her colors and with minimal help from Mom painted her Shisa.  Some how we didn't get a picture of Jayce working on his.  Hopefully I can get a picture before we get around to painting it.