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Kuzuhara Kofun (葛原古墳) is a Kofun period burial mound, located in the Onizuka, Kuzuhara neighborhood of the city of Usa on the island of Kyushu, Japan. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1957. [1]
Daisen Kofun, the largest of all kofun, one of many tumuli in the Mozu kofungun, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture (5th century) Kofun (古墳, from Sino-Japanese "ancient burial mound") are megalithic tombs or tumuli in Northeast Asia. Kofun were mainly constructed in the Japanese archipelago between the middle of the 3rd century to the early 7th ...
The Kawabe Takamori Kofun cluster is located on a plateau on the right bank of the Yakan River, which flows from south to north in Usa City, and consists of six keyhole-shaped zenpō-kōen-fun (前方後円墳), which are shaped like a keyhole, having one square end and one circular end, when viewed from above., as well as around 120 enpun (円墳)-style round tombs and surrounding ditch tombs.
The Yokotashimo Kofun is an enpun (円墳)-style circular burial mound, with an estimated diameter of about 30 meters, located on a hill about 60 meters above sea level at the eastern foot of Mount Kagamiyama, which is located almost in the center of the Karatsu Plain facing Karatsu Bay. It was discovered in 1924 when the owner of the land dug ...
Muro Miyayama Kofun Kofun (室宮山古墳) is a Kofun period burial mound, located in the Muro neighborhood of the town of Gose, Nara in the Kansai region of Japan.The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1921, with the area under protection expanded in 2022 and again in 2024. [1]
The hole was exposed when the soil of the mound collapsed due to heavy rain a few days earlier. The father of the child entered the mound with his child through the passageway and took pictures of the inside of the burial chamber. The photos were analyzed by a joint effort between Tokai University's Information Technology Center and Konica ...
The Nintoku-tennō-ryō Kofun, is one grave mound which is a 486 metres (1,594 ft) long tumulus enclosed by a moat and a fortification which is 840 metres (2,760 ft) in length; this is said to be the largest such mound in the world. This cluster also has the Richū-tennō-ryō Kofun, made of a tumulus of 360 metres (1,180 ft) length and said to ...
Tsukuriyama Kofun (造山古墳) is a cluster of Kofun period burial mounds located in the Shinjōshita neighborhood of Kita-ku, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, in the San'yō region of Japan. The cluster was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1921. [ 1 ]