Jōrakuji-Nanatsuzuka Kofun Cluster
kofun cluster in Hiroshima, Japan
The Jōrakuji-Nanatsuzuka Kofun Cluster (浄楽寺・七ツ塚古墳群, Jōrakuji-Nanatsuzuka kofun-gun) is a group of Kofun period burial mounds located in the Takasugi and Odasaiwai neighborhoods of the city of Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture in the San'yō region of Japan. The cluster was designated a National Historic Site in 1972.
Overview
The Miyoshi Basin in the Chugoku Mountains of former Bingo Province has one of the most dense concentration of burial mounds in the Chugoku region. The Jōrakuji-Nanatsuzuka cluster is one of the largest of these, and is located on a hill on the west bank of the Mihara River in the southeastern part of the Miyoshi Basin. The burial mounds are divided into north and south groups. In the Jōrakuji cluster on the north side consists of a total of 116 kofun, including one scallop-shaped (hotategata-kofun (帆立貝形古墳)), 97 circular-type (empun (円墳)), and 18 square-type (hōfun (方墳)). Mound No.12. the largest in this cluster, is a circular burial mound measuring 6 meters in height and 55 meters in diameter.
In the Nanatsuzuka Burial Mounds, located approximately 116 meters south, consists of a total of 60 burial mounds, including one 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 has a total length of 29.5 meters.
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