“For the Doll’s Festival, people dressed in traditional Ryukyuan costume walked through the streets in a michijune parade in the First Commercial Avenue in Okinawa City on March 1″ (Ryukyu Shimpo, 3/2/14).

“Okinawa (沖縄市 Okinawa-shi^?, Okinawan: Uchinaa) is the second-largest city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, following Naha, the capital city.^[1] It is located in the central part of the island of Okinawa, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Naha” (Wikipedia).