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Mount Akagi (赤城山, Akagi-yama, Red Castle) is a stratovolcano in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The broad, low dominantly andesitic stratovolcano rises above the northern end of the Kanto Plain. It contains an elliptical, 3 km × 4 km (1.9 mi × 2.5 mi) summit caldera with post-caldera lava domes arranged along a NW–SE line.
The treasure would be composed of "carved silver, gold jewellery, pearls and stones of value, Chinese porcelain, rich fabrics, paintings and perhaps 500,000 pesos". [10] The stories about this treasure are varied, some place it in the environment of the Roques de Anaga , while others place it in the zone of Punta del Hidalgo and the cave of San ...
The Takizawa site is located on a hill extending east to west of the western foot of Mount Akagi.It attracted attention because of the foundations of three pit dwellings found in 1926, along with prehistoric storage pits and other artifacts such as Jōmon pottery, stone tools and ritual objects such as clay figurines.
The Onna-bori extends from an elevation of 100 meters on Mount Akagi for some thirteen kilometers east to west, and with a width of between 15 and 30 meters and a depth of three to four meters. The origins of the Onna-bori are uncertain. According to legend, it was made by a woman using her kanzashi hairpin in one night.
The tumulus is located on a low hill at the southern foot of Mount Akagi. It is a zenpō-kōen-fun (前方後円墳), which is shaped like a keyhole, having one square end and one circular end, when viewed from above. It is the largest in the Ōmuro Kofun Cluster with a total length of 111 meters, with a posterior circular portion in two tiers ...
The eastern side of the plateau is eroded by the Tagawa and Kinugawa rivers, with Mount Tsukuba to the southeast, Mount Shirane and Mount Akagi in the northwest, and Mount Kogen in the north. It is located about 7 kilometers east-northeast from Oyama city.
Mount Akagi. Akagi (赤城村, Akagi-mura) was a village located in Seta District, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 12,184 and a density of 155.63 persons per km 2. The total area was 78.29 km 2.
Other archaeological National Treasures from the Buddhist era include ritual items buried in the temple foundations of the Golden Halls of Tōdai-ji and Kōfuku-ji in Nara. [38] According to an ancient Buddhist prophecy , the world would enter a dark period in 1051; consequently in the late Heian period the belief in the saving powers of ...