GC4EWVT Haka 3: Tomb of a prince and a maiden (Multi-cache) in Okinawa, Japan created by longwayrounders

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Hidden : 6/24/2013

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Indy Jones-style micro-tourism: hat, gloves, waterproof boots, bug-spray and spider stick instead of whip. There is a farmer road in, but we recommend starting at the trailhead. Spring (Golden Week) and Fall (Obon) the trail is freshly weed-wacked. Older kids ok - younger kids play nearby. The 4-sided prayer stick says you're close. Take the longwayround. You're not looking in a tomb. FTF gets exercise and new travel tags. Gambatte! Congrats to Mushin and Aoi on the FTF.

3rd in Haka series. Near Dawgdoc's previous Over the River and Through the Woods. Prayer marker at stage 1 says this is the grave of Aji Kumigami, the son or grandson of a prince. It mentions a Honke (head/main family) on one side, and a Negan (Oki dialect for maiden) on another. Final side describes this land as a place to worship where a god is enshrined and must be preserved. An altar is down the short trail left of the prayer stick. Another trail heads toward the Dam. If the vegetation were less overgrown, it might be visible.

We showed pics of 2 upstream markers to 3 farmers, asking them their history. "We don't have anything like that around here; you have to go to the Zakimi Castle to see stuff like that" they said. "Our family has been here for generations and none of us would ever go up there." They said they don't even know who is buried in the big tomb at the end of the road, let alone what we might find up in that jungle. "It's dangerous," they said, repeating the only English word they know, "jungle, jungle, BIG jungle". They insisted it might be haunted. Daytime might be okay, but the spirits come out when the sun goes down, especially if there are shrines or tombs. Indeed we had seen many ancient tombs hidden in the vertical hillside above the stream.

We went to Zakimi to ask the curators. They too said they had neither knowledge nor record of a “Sze-Gawa” (as it was written on the stone), but that Okinawans used to call fresh water shrimp “seh”. We've seen families netting shrimp and fishing in the river. One of the farmers also told us that salmon used to run this river before the dam was built.

Consensus on the message of the stone markers: “This is where Shrimp River begins; if you drink from this spot you will have good luck for all your days.” Didn't work out for Shrimp River headwater, not only is it dry, it's only use now is to serve as a marker for geocaching gaijin.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgntr 1: lrc, hc gurer, hce Fgntr 2: pebff evire ivn fgrccvat fgbarf; frr Fgntr 1

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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