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Munakata ruins map
My name is Biyojiji
The Equestrian Seto Settlement
  • Characteristic
  • Content: Old tomb
  • Period: The Kofun Period
  • Location: Fukuoka Prefecture Munakata City Giji Temple
The current Goji Temple Seto ruins

The Toji Temple Seto Remains is located in the eastern part of Munakata City, at the foot of Shiroyama, and is a remains of the Kofun period (about 1400 years ago) on a hill about 40 meters above sea level. From this site there are 2 small mounds with small burials, 2 circles and 1 m long, 5 small stone chamber tombs, a burial pit, a wood cover after burial and a pile of stones on it. A total of eight old burial mounds were found.

There are Tojijihara ruins and Togokuji Mukaihara ruins nearby, and more than 100 old tombs are concentrated in this area. However, because the Todo-ji Seto site exclusively uses a large tomb area with only two circles and several small tombs, this circle is where the local chief who buried the people buried in the surrounding burial mounds It is considered to be

Landscape of excavation
Luxurious side funeral

Of the two urns, a large number of luxurious artifacts were excavated from the 1st to the west. Excavated artifacts include weapons, harnesses, tools and accessories. In particular, the potato has a height of 12 cm and a diameter of 8 cm, and is the largest size in Japan.

A large potato from the No. 1 spot
Stone chamber with "stone shelf"

Gokuji Temple Seto Remains No. 1 has a special structure called a stone shelf in a stone room. As an old burial mound with this stone shelf, there is another Aihara burial mound in Munakata City, and it is concentrated in the surrounding area of Uiba, Yame, and Uki in Kyushu.

The Yamato government was created after the power of Sakurai declined, as it was the time after the "Sakai Rebellion", which was a revolt against the Yamato government initiated by Mr. Sakurai of Kyushu in 527. There is a theory called the tomb of the regional chiefs who are in tune with the In addition, there is an old tomb with a stone shelf in the Kinki region, so there is also a view that it is an old tomb of a powerful clan who came to Kyushu from Shonai.

Stone shelf in the back of the stone chamber
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