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Date UncertainSite Name: Usumē Hāmē Alternative Name: ウスメー・ハーメー Usume HameCountry: Japan Region: Kyūshū Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Uruma (Okinawa pref.) Nearest Village: Ikei-jima island 伊計島
Latitude: 26.384000N Longitude: 127.993700E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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On a lawn ground near a shore of Ikei-jima island which is connected to Okinawa main island by the chain of bridges, there stands a pair of coral limestone menhir. In the same ground also stands a worn out stone-lion "Sīsī"."Usumē" means 'old man' and "Hāmē" means 'old woman' in Okinawan language. They sometimes called as "Usumēgwa Hāmēgwa", "-gwa" is a suffix for 'little lovely one' like "-chan" in Japanese or "-y" in English (= Johnny, granny).
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