On 19 May 98, at 22:17, SlayerNext wrote:

In a message dated 98-05-18 00:40:48 EDT, some strange person on the FFML (but
are we all) wrote:

<< Tenchi Muyo:
 Does anyone know where in Japan the Masaki shrine is supposedly located?
 Like the "????-area" kind of thing. >>

Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

Well, that's where their names come from anyway.  Devil's Rock and the Taro
Shrine are the insprations for Ryoko's cave and the Masaki Shrine.  Mihoshi
and Kiyone are named after towns, Yosho and Washu are named after mountains,
Azaka & Kamidake are remote countryside locations, and Sasami is named after
Sami Beach (The extra "sa" at the beginning of her name means "sand").

Check out...

http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~inabake/idsfa/map.html

...for a map of Okayama prefecture showing the location of all of these 
sites, as well as photos of them, and a virtual tour of the Taro Shrine, 
on which the Masaki Shrine is based.


Hassheen!