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https://papersky.jp/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/resized_DSCF3551-1.jpg1200800For generations, the islanders of Okinawa have carved traditional wooden boats known as sabani. Kyoko Kunioka is one of the few people still building them today. Neither Okinawan nor uminchu (a seafarer), she stepped alone into the traditionally male world of sabani boatbuilding. Reading the wind and moving with the waves, she has come to see the islands from a different shore.