Like similar sites elsewhere in Asia, the graves are crowded together, following the contours of the hillside.
This grave was fairly typical:
It's the Hiramatsu family site. There's room underneath for the cremated remains of a number of different people. The two red vases are for sprigs of green plants; the basin between them for water. If additional remains are added later, another gravestone is placed at the side, and there's room on it to carve the names of more people as they join the site. Like most of the graves here, this one was well tended.
This family had a dog they must have liked a lot ("Eriko sleeps here"):
I found this one quite creepy:
The expression on the matriarch's face deserves a close-up:
I took this picture because the Japanese surname looked so odd to me: "rice-spring".
I asked my host about it; he said he wasn't really sure how that name was supposed to be pronounced.
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