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Yoraku Kanjo Kofun — 与楽カンジョ古墳 墳丘

Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)

Yoraku Kanjo Kofun

Also known asKanjo Kofun

Japan

Datedc. 500–700 CE

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Overview

The Yōraku Kanjo Kofun (与楽カンジョ古墳) is a Kofun period square burial mound at the tip of a ridge extending south from the Kaibukiyama Hills, on the southern edge of the Nara Basin, in the town of Takatori, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is one of the three largest tumuli of the Yōraku Kofun Cluster.

Its horizontal-entry stone burial chamber is 11.8 meters long and 5.3 meters high, the largest in Nara Prefecture. The mound is estimated to date from around the end of the 6th century to the early 7th century.

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Where it sits in time

The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.

The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.

  1. Göbekli Tepe9600 BCE
  2. First farming9500 BCE
  3. Avebury2600 BCE
  4. Great Pyramid of Giza2560 BCE
  5. Stonehenge2500 BCE
  6. Bronze Age collapse1200 BCE
  7. Rome founded753 BCE
  8. Parthenon447 BCE
  9. Hadrian's Wall122 CE
  10. Machu Picchu built1450 CE
12,000 BCE8,000 BCE4,000 BCE1 CE1,500 CE
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500–700 CEHow this date was established: Artefact styleEstimated

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Yoraku Kanjo Kofun

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The chamber is constructed of huge diorite stones, with the relatively flat surface facing the interior.

Yōraku Kofun Cluster

Description

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The Yōraku Kanjo Kofun is a hōfun (方墳) tumulus, 36 meters on each side and ten meters high, constructed in two tiers. A horizontal-entry stone burial chamber opening to the south has been confirmed. The chamber measures 11.8 meters in total length, with a dome-shaped ceiling and a particularly high chamber height of 5.3 meters, making it the largest in Nara Prefecture.

The chamber is constructed of huge diorite stones, with the relatively flat surface facing the interior. The left side wall is built in five layers and the right wall in four. The four walls are brought inward to form the dome-shaped ceiling, and the ceiling stone is a single monolith. The floor of the main chamber is covered with gravel.

Finds

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Grave goods found in the stone chamber included gilt bronze earrings, silver rings, unknown iron products, whetstones, and Sue ware and Haji ware pottery, among them miniature pottery handles.