Linguistic Archaeology: Ancient Treasure Maps

The maps of Japanese language leads us to that inevitable word for treasure... Takara.

Japanese Words
Treasure   = Takara
Gold           = Gorudo
Tomb         = Haka
Mountain = Yama
Hill            = Oka
Coast         = Kaigan
Umbrella  = Kasa
Tiger         = Tora
Valley          = Tani
Bamboo   = Take
Ocean       = Kaiyo

We are confronted with a map. Located on an ocean coastline is a hill with a tomb (nearby, atop, or beneath the hill). Inland is a bamboo-filled valley.

At a point between the bamboo filled valley and the coastal hill-tomb is the treasure. Perhaps a tiger statue of gold or jade or stone, or it belongs to an individual named Tiger.

And there it is... a sort of treasure map. There is a lot of coastline in Asia. Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, Sumatra, Borneo... plenty of places to look and dig.