Midoro Kofun
kofun period keyhole-shaped burial mound in Japan
Midoro Kofun (水泥古墳) is a pair of Kofun period burial mounds, located in the Furuse neighborhood of the city of Gose, Nara in the Kansai region of Japan. The pair of tumuli were designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1961. The tumulus is also called the Imaki-no-sō haka (今木の双墓).
Overview
Midoro Kofun stand side-by-side, about 60 meters apart, on the eastern foot of the Kose mountain range near the Yoshino River basin in the southwestern edge of the Nara Basin. The Koseyama Tomb Cluster, a large group of tombs, is distributed in the northern hills, but the Midoro Kofun not regarded as part of that cluster. The two tumuli are called the "Kita Kofun" and the "Minami Kofun", respectively, and both enpun (円墳)-style circular mounds, with horizontal-entry stone burial chambers, with the Kita Kofun being slightly larger in size.
The Minami Kofun has a diameter of about 25 meters and a height of about six meters, and is orientated to the south. The burial chamber and the antechamber were built with piled up broken granite stones, the burial chamber is about 4.6 meters long, 2 meters wide and is currently about 2.2 meters high, the antechamber is about 6.2 meters long, 1.5 meters wide and currently about 1.1 meters high, and contains two stone sarcophagi inside. Both are made of tuff; the body is carved out and the lid is roof-shaped with six rope hanging protrusions. One is located in the main burial chamber, and one on the entrance passage.
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