Hakusansha

The shrine lies at the western end of the Moriyama plateau, which stretches from north-east to south-west in the north-east of Nagoya. The kofun is a large keyhole-shaped mound with a length of more than 95 m. The round part has a diameter of 54 m, and on its summit stand the main hall of the shrine and, to left and right, two subsidiary shrines, the Konpira and Akiba shrines. The surface of the mound shows a covering of river stones 15 to 20 cm in size.

Three investigations are recorded. The first was in 1967, when the Social Education Section of the Aichi Prefectural Board of Education, under a commission from the Cultural Properties Protection Commission, patrolled important sites in Moriyama ward and surveyed seven mounds including Hakusan. In 1996 the Aichi Prefectural History Compilation Office surveyed the mound for the compilation of the prefectural history. In 1999 the Nagoya City Board of Education carried out an excavation, which yielded only a few small fragments of haniwa (clay figures). The finds are kept at the Nagoya City Museum and the Nagoya City Miharashidai Archaeological Museum.