Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
ふな塚古墳
DatedEst. 250–650 CE
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Overview
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What the sources say
ふな塚古墳（ふなつかこふん）は、岐阜県各務原市鵜沼大伊木町にある前方後円墳。正式には大牧4号墳という。築造は古墳時代後期（6世紀後半～7世紀初頭）。大牧古墳群の中で1号墳に次いでよく残っている古墳である。
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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.
The full article
ふな塚古墳: the whole story
Summary in EnglishSources for this section
- Wikipedia (Japanese): ふな塚古墳CC BY-SA 4.0
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- Wikipedia (Japanese): ふな塚古墳CC BY-SA 4.0
ふな塚古墳 is a megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones) in Japan. A typological estimate: 250 CE to 650 CE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Japanese article "ふな塚古墳", shown in the original language.
現地情報Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (Japanese): ふな塚古墳CC BY-SA 4.0
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- Wikipedia (Japanese): ふな塚古墳CC BY-SA 4.0
所在地
岐阜県各務原市鵜沼大伊木町3丁目
交通アクセス
鉄道：名古屋鉄道（名鉄）各務原線 名電各務原駅 （徒歩約45分）
関連施設
各務原市埋蔵文化財調査センター - ふな塚古墳出土品を保管。
周辺
大牧1号古墳 - 各務原市指定史跡。大牧古墳群で唯一完全に現存する古墳。
大伊木山西古墳 - 岐阜県道芋島鵜沼線に隣接する古墳。
出典Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (Japanese): ふな塚古墳CC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (Japanese): ふな塚古墳CC BY-SA 4.0
各務原市「遺跡リーフレット」
古墳横の案内板
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Japanese kofun tumuli
Kofun are the great burial mounds of ancient Japan, built mainly between the middle of the third century and the early seventh century CE. The period takes its name from them. The most distinctive form is the keyhole-shaped mound (zempō-kōen-fun), with one square end and one round end seen from above, but there are also plain round mounds, double-rectangle mounds and square mounds. Orientation is not fixed: in the Mozu group at Sakai, some round parts face north and others east.
The largest is Daisenryō kofun at Sakai in Osaka, the biggest kofun in Japan, thought to have been built over some twenty years in the middle of the fifth century. By common acceptance it is the tomb of Emperor Nintoku, and the Imperial Household Agency treats it as such, but this cannot be confirmed because the mound has not been excavated. It stands in the Mozu group, which once had more than a hundred tombs of which fewer than half remain; the group and the neighbouring Furuichi cluster were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2019. The mounds were built on a plateau overlooking Osaka Bay, near the ancient coastline.
Dating rests on mound shape, pottery and grave goods. Haniwa, which means "clay circle", are terracotta cylinders and figures of houses, animals and people that were arranged in rings and rows around and on top of the mounds. Smaller kofun are very numerous and sit in groups in every region of Japan.
When visiting, look for the moat that surrounds the larger mounds, for the stepped outline of terraces, and for reconstructed haniwa in museums and parks beside the tombs.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Kofun, Wikipedia: Daisen Kofun, Wikipedia: Haniwa, Wikipedia: Mozu Tombs · CC BY-SA 4.0
See it in 3D
An interpretive reconstruction of the monument, standing on the real ground at its exact point, under the sun for that place and season. Drag to look around it.
The reconstruction is ours, not a survey: it shows what a monument of this type looks like, at the size the record gives for this one.
Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 250–650 CEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for megalithic mounds in Japan; this site has not been dated itself. Japanese kofun burial mounds were mainly constructed between the middle of the 3rd century and the early 7th century AD.Source for this date
Where it stands
Japan
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 35°22′58″ N, 136°54′02″ EFor a GPS or map app: 35.38281, 136.90068
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Oumakiichigoukohun250–650 CE- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)大伊木山西古墳250–650 CE
Bōnotsuka Kofun4000–1200 BCE- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Ishouzuka Kofun250–650 CE
Ninomiya jinjya kohun250–650 CE
Myōkanji Kofun250–650 CE- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)金縄塚古墳250–650 CE
Higashinomiya Kofun4000–1200 BCE
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Text, licence and sources
Text from the Wikipedia article "ふな塚古墳" (Japanese), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; authors are listed in the page history. Reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikipedia · Edit history and authors
- Wikipedia (Japanese): ふな塚古墳CC BY-SA 4.0
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