Photo by Yoshie Makiyama | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 05.11.2023
Service members listen to the instruction from Col. David M. Banning, camp commander for Camps Foster and Lester, for the coming event on May 14 after their last practice on May 11 before the actual performing day....
Photo by Yoshie Makiyama | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 05.11.2023
Jikata, singers and sanshin players, from Chatan Young Adult Federation play live music for Eisa practice at the parking lot by the Exchange on Camp Foster, May 11, 2023....
Photo by Yoshie Makiyama | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 05.09.2023
Service members, Amelia Earhart Firebird Taiko Club drummers and teams from Chatan Young Adult Federation practice at Camp Foster, May 9, 2023....
Photo by Yoshie Makiyama | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 05.09.2023
Service members, Amelia Earhart Firebird Taiko Club drummers and teams from Chatan Young Adult Federation practice at the parking lot by the Exchange on Camp Foster, May 9, 2023. They learn the formations while they move....
Photo by Yoshie Makiyama | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 04.04.2023
Service members, Amelia Earhart Firebird Taiko Club drummers and teams from Chatan Young Adult Federation practice at Camp Foster, April 4, 2023....
Photo by Yoshie Makiyama | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 04.04.2023
A local Eisa member with a drumstick stands by the whiteboard and pointed to the note of heshi (shouting) in front of the service members during the practice at Camp Foster, April 4, 2023....
Photo by Yoshie Makiyama | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 04.04.2023
Service members practice with the many big sheets of paper with words spread out on the whiteboard behind them to help them know how and when to say the heshi (shouting) at Camp Foster, April 4, 2023....
Photo by Yoshie Makiyama | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 03.21.2023
Marines from Camp Foster practice eisa drum dance with Chatan Young Adult Federation, consisting of two surviving young adult associations, Jaagaru and Eguchi Young Adult Associations, at Chatan, Okinawa, March 21, 2023. They have been practicing together every Tuesday and Thursday since March 14, 2023. It all started when Col. David M. Banning, camp commander for Camps Foster and Lester,......