Hawaii United Okinawa Association Center
Saturday, August 17, 2019 9:30am-2:00pm
94-587 Ukee Street
Waipahu, Hawaii 96797
Join us for an artist/author talk from 9:30-10:00am followed by a book signing with Lee A. Tonouchi and Laura Kina. We will be on site until 2pm.
http://huoa.org/nuuzi/index.html
Barnes & Noble at the Ala Moana Mall
Saturday, August 24, 1-2pm
Ala Moana Center
1450 Ala Moana Blvd. STE 1272
Honolulu, HI 96814
Join us for an artist/author book signing with Lee A. Tonouchi and Laura Kina
Bess Press/ da Shop
Saturday, August 24, 2019 6:30-8:30pm (private party)
3565 Harding Ave. (parking available at municipal lot across the street)
Honolulu, HI 96816
Celebrate the release of Okinawan Princess with author Lee A. Tonouchi illustrator Laura Kina. Book signing, drinks, and pupus.
RSVP to Bess Press via Eviteby August 12.
https://dashophnl.com/
The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Hamilton Library Room #301
Thursday, August 29, 2019 6-7pm
2550 McCarthy Mall
Honolulu, HI 96822
http://manoa.hawaii.edu/library/
Join us for an artist/author book talk with Lee A. Tonouchi and Laura Kina.
Introduction by Kent Sakoda, a community liaison at the Charlene Junko Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole, and Dialect Studies at UH Manoa.
The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Okinawan Studies, the Charlene Junko Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole, and Dialect Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the Hawaiian Collection in Hamilton Library.
Contact: Sachiko Iwabuchi sachiko.iwabuchi@hawaii.edu 808-956-2311
Visitor Parking info: http://go.hawaii.edu/GwY
Parking Questions? parking@hwaii.edu 808-956-8899
Please note that books will not be on sale at this event but we will be happy to sign them if you bring your own copy.
37th Annual Okinawan Festival August 31-Sept 1, 2019
Hawaii Convention Center
1801 Kalakaua Ave
Honolulu, HI
Books will be on sale during festival hours.
“Okinawan Princess” book signing with Lee A. Tonouchi and Laura Kina
Saturday, August 31, 2019, 12:00–1:00pm Cultural Village Room, 3rd floor, 316A
Sunday, September 1, 2019, 10:00-11:00am Cultural Village Room, 3rd floor, 316A
Books will be on sale in the Craft Gallery, room 313A during festival hours and at the Cultural Village Room during the book signings.
https://www.okinawanfestival.com/
Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos
$18.95
Lee A. Tonouchi (author), Laura Kina (illustrator), Masashi Sakihara (translator)
Available online through Bess Press and Amazon.com
Available in Hawaii:
da Shop (Kaimuki, Oahu)
Barnes & Noble (Ala Moana Center, Honolulu, Oahu)
BookEnds (Kailua, Oahu)
Homegrown (Pearlridge, Pearl City, Oahu)
Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii (Honolulu, Oahu)
Na Mea Hawaii (Ward Village, Honolulu, Oahu)
SugarCane (Kaimuki, Oahu)
Basically Books (Hilo, Big Island)
Hasegawa General Store (Hana, Maui)
Public Libraries of Hawaii (various locations throughout the state)
Available in the Continental US:
Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
Marketplace at the Wing Luke Museum (Seattle, WA)
Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos is an illustrated, transpacific feminist fairy tale for all readers that illuminates an ancient tradition and pushes back against normative standards of beauty.
When Gramma notices how much her granddaughter wishes she could look like a supermodel, Gramma shares how her own mother was made fun of when she moved to Hawai‘i from Okinawa due to the bold blue hajichi tattoos on the back of her hands.
Gramma then reveals the legend behind those mysterious markings. When the Okinawan Princess is kidnapped by Japanese pirates, will she wait for someone to save her or will she be able to outwit her captors? This trilingual story is written in Hawai‘i Creole, then translated into Japanese and the endangered indigenous Okinawan language called Uchinaaguchi. “Okinawan Princess” is part of ongoing efforts to revitalize Okinawan language, history and culture worldwide.
About the author:
Lee A. Tonouchi is a full Okinawan yonsei born and raised in Hawai’i. He is known as “Da Pidgin Guerrilla” for his championing of Pidgin a.k.a Hawai’i Creole to be accepted as a legitimate language. His last book, Significant Moments in da Life of Oriental Faddah and Son: One Hawai’i Okinawan Journal, published by Bess Press, won the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Poetry/Prose.
About the illustrator:
Laura Kina is a “hapa, yonsei, Uchinanchu” artist and educator based in Chicago. Her artwork addresses Asian American and mixed race identities and histories with a focus on Okinawa and Hawai’i diasporas. She is a Vincent de Paul Professor of Art, Media, & Design at DePaul University and coeditor of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art (University of Washington Press, 2013), and Que(e)rying Contemporary Asian American Art(University of Washington Press, 2017).
