Oyster Creek Cache #3 - Koramatsu's Moon Traditional Cache
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Oyster Creek Cache #3 - Koramatsu's Moon
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Located on the banks of Oyster Creek, nestled in bamboo.
During the Second World War, a Japanese soldier named Toshiyuki Koramatsu was captured and relocated to a POW camp in the Texas hill country. Shamed by his capture, Koramatsu vowed never to return home. His family even told his fiancée that he had been killed in battle so that the family's honor would be upheld.
After the war, Koramatsu settled in Sugar Land along the banks of Oyster Creek. The area's marshy soil, big trees, sugar industry, and many creeks reminded him of his small fishing village back home. He even planted bamboo on his property to provide some sense of comfort and familiarity. For 5 years he lived alone, spending his days fishing, hunting, and walking along the creek thinking of home and his beloved.
At the age of 28, he could bare the solitude no longer. Shamed, separated from he beloved fiancée whom had married another man, and alone, Toshiyuki Koramatsu killed himself on the banks of Oyster Creek - October 27, 1948. The weather was crisp, with the first frost of the autumn season. A full moon shown down on the bamboo that Koramatsu had planted with his own hands. Farmers in the area commented that the plants looked like they were in mourning for their fallen master - both plant and man limp and lifeless in the fall moonlight.
On moonlight nights, residents of Sugar Land still report seeing a short Asian man dressed in a soldiers uniform making his way through the bamboo, stopping on the edge of the creek, and weeping into his hands. The site is now overgrown by the bamboo that Koramatsu loved so much.
Take care in finding the cache. Neighbors in the area have commented that no one will touch the property because those who enter the bamboo often feel a presence watching them from its midst. A few have even reported seeing a shadowy figure staring back at them as the bamboo waves in the wind, masking the faint sounds of a weeping broken heart.
Dont linger too long.......and be careful at night.
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