Hello everybody,
I went up North today and decided to paddle a little bit off the coast of south Yagaji Island. Me being inquisitive and naturally curious, I decided to go hopping from island to island in the little bay that the area provides. Amongst the islands I noticed numerous graves etched into the coral walls with almost all of them containing pottery in which they held human remains, or what’s left after the skeletons that have endured years of tropical weather. In some areas erosion and landslides got to these tombs and graves, there were skulls, remains, and pottery littered everywhere. In a lot of these graves, I saw what appeared to be mini cement houses (I apologize for my ignorance, I truly am unsure on what they are), and some of them were open with bones inside of them. Some graves that were etched into the walls had a spot for about one clay pot, and some held multiple with what also appeared to me as “little houses”. Some of these spots that I came across had also only had a “fraction” of a person, and by that, I mean there were clearly missing parts from a whole skeleton (this leads me to speculate that maybe these people were victims of the battle of Okinawa?).
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**What is the significance of these people being stowed away into clay pots and put on little islands off the coast of the larger lands?**
**Is this a traditional Okinawan burial practice?**
**Could these people potentially be the victims of the battle of Okinawa?**
**What are the “little houses” and what is their significance?**
by _Jersey_Kid_