Comments on: In the Ballpark of Hope: Okinawan Grave In the Dark http://regex.info/blog/2009-01-10/1104 Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Wed, 23 May 2012 12:55:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Judith Adamek http://regex.info/blog/2009-01-10/1104#comment-33815 Judith Adamek Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:02:32 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2009-01-10/1104#comment-33815 The hotel pictures are spectacular. How much is a room there.? I just called your Mom to ask her if she would like to go there with me. Surprise,she said no. Loved the pictures of all the young people in Japan. <div class='jfriedl'><p>I don't know how much the rooms were because the whole trip was free. (Well, my wife paid, but I purposefully remained ignorant of the price so that I could actually enjoy it. List price for our room was something like $600/night, but she got a package and so I hope she didn't pay anything near that. I hope.)</p><p>My mom would love to visit it if she could drive it in one day. Anything else is too much hassle. She's never been out of North America, and has little desire to change that. —Jeffrey</p></div> The hotel pictures are spectacular. How much is a room there.? I just called your Mom to ask her if she would like to go there with me. Surprise,she said no.
Loved the pictures of all the young people in Japan.

I don’t know how much the rooms were because the whole trip was free. (Well, my wife paid, but I purposefully remained ignorant of the price so that I could actually enjoy it. List price for our room was something like $600/night, but she got a package and so I hope she didn’t pay anything near that. I hope.)

My mom would love to visit it if she could drive it in one day. Anything else is too much hassle. She’s never been out of North America, and has little desire to change that. —Jeffrey

]]> By: Bryce Lee (not an Asian) http://regex.info/blog/2009-01-10/1104#comment-33765 Bryce Lee (not an Asian) Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:40:10 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2009-01-10/1104#comment-33765 The first time I saw the name Okinawa thought of what that location meant to many during the Second World War. The grave sit is "in the middle of nowhere" as it were. The actual site intrigues me by dint of the layout. A courtyard? in the front area, a white structure I assume would hold the body of the deceased although beings a large as it is I would expect more than one body an d some sort of shrine or similar up top. Am I correct in my description? And what about the one portion of the tomb with a portion set in, from the rest, is there some reason, or would this have been the entrance the burial area at one time? Looking out to sea to the lone island is different I must admit. <span class='jfriedl'>I don't know the details, but the grave plots in Okinawa are very different from those in mainland Japan. They take up a lot of real estate, so I expect that this style is old. I'll do a posting about them some day, although it won't have much more than pictures and speculation. —Jeffrey</span> The first time I saw the name Okinawa thought of what that location meant to many during the Second World War.

The grave sit is “in the middle of nowhere” as it were. The actual site intrigues
me by dint of the layout. A courtyard? in the front area, a white structure I assume would hold the body of the deceased although beings a large as it is I would expect more than one body an d some sort of shrine or similar up top. Am I correct in my description?

And what about the one portion of the tomb with a portion set in, from the rest, is there some reason, or would this have been the entrance the burial area at one time?

Looking out to sea to the lone island is different I must admit.

I don’t know the details, but the grave plots in Okinawa are very different from those in mainland Japan. They take up a lot of real estate, so I expect that this style is old. I’ll do a posting about them some day,
although it won’t have much more than pictures and speculation. —Jeffrey

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