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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 ...
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 ...
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 Yonaguni Monument (Japanese: 与那国島海底地形, Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei, lit. ' Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography '), also known as the 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.
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.
This category includes historic locations such as shell mounds, ancient tombs, sites of palaces, sites of forts or castles, monumental dwelling houses and other sites of high historical or scientific value; gardens, bridges, gorges, mountains, and other places of great scenic beauty; and natural features such as animals, plants, and geological ...
During the Edo Period, Philipp Franz von Siebold made note of the monument and left three detailed sketches of it in the first volume of his work Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan und dessen Neben- und Schutzländern from 1832. [2] The monolith is 1.5 kilometers from Hoden Station on the JR West San'yō Main Line. [2]