Tombs--Japan;Okinawa Island (Japan)
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Cluster of Okinawan tombs on a hillside, September 19, 1947
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Cluster of Okinawan tombs of several types on a hillside near the village of Izumi, central Motobu peninsula. This illustrates the two main types of tombs."
Limestone Okinawan tombs, April 20, 1948
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Okinawan tombs or hakas cut into the soft limestone near the main road north of Jahanna, western Motobu peninsula, since I left the island last fall. The plain beyond the limestone face includes some Nakasoni silt loam and some Brown Forest soils from limestone."
Turtle-back tomb with moss, September 7, 1947
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "An old Okinawan tomb in the mountainside east of the village of Yako, north shore of Shana Wan, now overgrown by moss and ferns and flanked by trees and vines; rice paddies in foreground."
Two tombs alongside road, September 16, 1947
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Two very simple Okinawan tombs cut into the soft coralline limestone in a cut along a road built by Americans, now abandoned. Cans before tombs hold withered flowers."