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The Mozu Kofun Cluster is located in the city of Sakai which is within Osaka Prefecture. The tumuli are built on a plateau overlooking Osaka Bay near the ancient coastline and are distributed in a range of about four kilometers from east-to-west and north-to-south.The Furuichi Kofun Cluster is located in nearby Habikino and Fujiidera cities. [5]
Furuichi kofungun (古市古墳群) is a group of Kofun period burial mounds located in the cities of Fujiidera and Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. [1] Twelve of the tumuli in this group were individually designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1956, with an additional 14 collectively added to the designation in 2001, and the area ...
Reconstructed model of a late 4th century zenpō-kōen-fun (Kaichi Kofun), Nantan, Kyoto Prefecture The kofun tumuli have assumed various shapes throughout history. The most common type of kofun is known as 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.
Mozu (Bull-headed shrike) Japanese bird: Mozu kofungun (百舌鳥 古墳群) tombs in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture Mozu Station (百舌鳥 駅, Mozu-eki) railway station on the Hanwa Line in Sakai-ku, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture
The large Zenpokoenfun of Dawa was the Furuichi Kofun Cluster and Mozu Tombs. [25]: 110–115 The center of gravity of the Great King's Tomb shifted again in the 5th century to the ancient city tomb group and the hundred-tongued bird tomb group in the Osaka Plain. Regarding the reasons for the multiple transfers of these large Zenpokoenfun ...
Keyhole-shaped kofun drawn in 3DCG (Nakatsuyama Kofun [] in Fujiidera, Osaka, 5th century) Kofun-period jewelry (British Museum). Kofun (from Middle Chinese kú 古 "ancient" + bjun 墳 "burial mound") [7] [8] are burial mounds built for members of the ruling class from the 3rd to the 7th centuries in Japan, [9] and the Kofun period takes its name from the distinctive earthen mounds.
Saitobaru kofungun,upper;the 3rd group, left upper;Osahozuka, left lower;Mesahozuka, right central;2nd group, right lower;1st group. Saitobaru Kofun Cluster (Japanese: 西都原古墳群) is a group of three hundred thirty three kofuns or tumuli in Saito city, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.
The Chinese equivalent of this type of sword in terms of weight and length is the miaodao or the earlier zhanmadao, and the Western battlefield equivalent (though less similar) is the Zweihänder. To qualify as an ōdachi , the sword in question would have a blade length of around 3 shaku (90.9 cm (35.8 in)).