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The Yonaguni Monument (Japanese: 与那国島海底地形, Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei, lit."Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography"), also known as "Yonaguni (Island) Submarine Ruins" (与那国（島）海底遺跡, Yonaguni(-jima) Kaitei Iseki), is a submerged rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan.
Examples of stone magatama from the Kofun period are especially numerous. An excavation of the Kamegaoka Kofun, Kishiwada, Osaka, revealed a local who had been buried with a jade, jasper, and alabaster magatama necklace, as well as magatama placed near the feet. A bronze mirror imported from China accompanying the burial was dated to 239 CE.
Piles of flat stones contain 7 stones. Hitters cannot run with the ball to hit the seekers. The seeker, after restoring the pile of stones, says the game's name to announce the reconstruction of the pile of stones. If the ball is thrown by the thrower and hits the piles and the opposite member catch the ball then the whole gis out
Mount Tsurumi is a lava dome. It has several peaks, including Mount Kuranoto, Mount Uchi, and Mount Garan. It has several peaks, including Mount Kuranoto, Mount Uchi, and Mount Garan. This mountain is one of the Japan 300 mountains , and a part of Aso Kujū National Park .
The Bawomataluo settlement on the island of Nias is located on a hill on a level ground about 400 metres (1,300 ft) above mean sea level [3] and is accessed by concrete steps. The hill is oriented in the southeast to the northwest direction. It covers an area of about 5 hectares (12 acres).
Tsurumi was connected to Yokohama and Tokyo by train in 1872, and the area rapidly urbanized. Sōji-ji, the head temple of the Sōtō sect of Zen Buddhism relocated to Tsurumi from Ishikawa Prefecture in 1911. Tsurumi suffered severe damage from the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. In April 1924, Tsurumi became a town within Tachibana District.
The Manpupuner rock formations. The Manpupuner rock formations (Man-Pupu-Nyor; Mansi: Мань-Пупыг-Нёр [manʲ.pupiɣ noːr], literally ’Small Idol Mountain’; Komi: Болвано-Из [bolvano iz], literally ’Idol Stone’) are a set of 7 stone pillars located west of the Ural Mountains in the Troitsko-Pechorsky District of the Komi Republic.
The stone slates were naturally thick. The walls had to compensate by being thicker than the slates in Cotswold traditional houses in order for the building to be supported. [2] The king mullion is a common element of the Cotswold style. [10] The windows of Cotswold cottages were glazed with lead. In smaller structures, the windows were the ...