Today we finally found the Naha City Museum of Handicrafts. We must have walked past it half a dozen times this week. But on our way back from the Pottery Museum, which we only found by Jo's good nose for finding things, we spotted a map on the floor of the covered market where we found shelter from the heat. (Apples in this market are even more expensive than in the supermarkets, which proves that they are tourist traps.)
Both museums were friendly but had minimal English. We sat in the cool and watched videos about the various crafts and read the English guide book to the pots.
Some of the fabrics were wonderful. They use very fine threads and very tight warps.
I spotted a shop selling old kimono. These are kasuri!
In a nearby shop that sells dragons was a kitten who looked as though she had slain them all, single pawedly:
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