Shizuhatagayama Kofun
Shizuhatayama Kofun (賤機山古墳) is a circular kofun burial mound located within the grounds of the Shizuoka Sengen Shrine complex in Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, Japan. It is protected by the central government as a National Historic Site.
Located on the hilltop immediately behind the Honden of the Ohtoshimioya Shrine, the burial mound has a horizontal chamber of cut stones, surmounted by a stone dome, approximately seven meters in diameter. The interior burial chamber has a length of 6.5 meters, height of 2.3 meters and width of 1.8 meters. A rock-lined tunnel 18.2 meters long connects the burial chamber to an opening in the hillside. Some 600 head-sized boulders from the nearby Abe River were used in its construction.
The burial chamber contains a stone sarcophagus made of tuff from Izu peninsula.
The kofun was excavated in 1949. Numerous shards of Hagi ware and Sue ware were found on the floor of the tomb, and remnants of armor, swords and bronze horse fittings were found within the sarcophagus, indicating that the burial dates from around the 6th century AD. The name or rank of the person buried in the tomb is unknown. The site came under government protection in 1953, and many of the artifacts uncovered are displayed at a small museum within the grounds of the Shizuoka Sengen Shrine.
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- Goto, Ken’Ichi. The Breakup and Unification of Regional Distribution, as Seen in Sue Ware Recovered from Kofun: An Example using Sue from Sixth and Seventh Century Tombs of Western Suruga. NIHON KÔKOGAKU. No. 9, May 2000, 149p; ISSN 1340-8488, ISBN 4-642-08979-9