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Jigokudani Stone Buddhas (地獄谷石窟仏, Jigokudani sekkutsu butsu) is a group of Buddhist statues carved in bas-relief into a tuff cliff in the Takabatake neighborhood of the city of Nara, Nara Prefecture in the Kansai region, Japan. It is one of the stone Buddhas scattered along the Yagyū Kaidō, and ancient road connecting Heijō-kyō ...
Okayama Prefecture's Kōraku-en is a designated Special Place of Scenic Beauty. Monuments (記念物, kinenbutsu) is a collective term used by the Japanese government's Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties to denote Cultural Properties of Japan [note 1] as historic locations such as shell mounds, ancient tombs, sites of palaces, sites of forts or castles, monumental dwelling houses ...
The Three Stelae of Kōzuke (上野三碑) are three ancient stelae (graven stone monuments) in the former Kōzuke Province of Japan, located in what is now the city of Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, in the Kantō region. Together, they were inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register as "Three Cherished Stelae of Ancient Kozuke" in 2017 ...
The group of monuments dates from the Ryukyu Kingdom period, spanning 12th to 17th centuries. The characteristic feature of the period are gusuku. fortified castles that evolved from earlier stone enclosures around villages. The islands maintained trade and cultural connections with Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia, which is reflected in ...
Special Natural Monument: criteria under which the monument has been designated or "-" if it is not a Special Natural Monument; Remarks: general remarks; Location: "town-name prefecture-name" and geo coordinates of the monument if applicable; sorts as "prefecture-name town-name" Photo: picture of the monument
"Tatsuyama stone" is the name given to rhyolite welded tuff found on the right bank of the lower reaches of the Kakogawa River. It is a thick deposit of pyroclastic flow ejected by volcanic activity in the late Cretaceous about 100 million years ago and has the density and material strength suitable as a building material. Traces of stone ...
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The Ishibutai Kofun occupies an area of 27 m 2 (291 sq ft), and is the largest known megalithic structure in Japan. [4] It is located 5 km from Tanzan Shrine. [5] It was originally covered by a mound made of piled up earth, but the earth has disappeared, exposing a horizontal stone burial chamber made of huge stones.