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Looking Towards Nirai Kanai

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Urashima Etsuko  and
Gavan McCormack
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Many old tombs in Okinawa were built facing the sea. This is because of the belief that the spirits of the dead would go back [after death] to their original ancestral village [Nirai Kanai] from which also come the gods that bring blessings and fruits.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 21 , November 2016 , e3
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