Nintoku Tennou Ryou

Famous tumulus in Japan.

It is the largest keyhole-shaped burial mound in Japan located in Daisen Town. It is called the Three Mozumimihara Tumulus together with Tadeiyama Tumulus(Emperor Hanzei's Tumulus)in the north side and Misannzai Tumulus (Emperor Richu's Tumulus) in the south side, and is under Imperial Household Agency's supervision as a center Tumulus, Daisen Tumulus(Emperor Nintoku's Tumulus). The three staged mound, which has its rectangular part facing the south, is about 486 meters long, the round part about 249 meters long and about 35 meters high, the rectangular part about 35 meters wide and about 33 meters high. There is tsukuridashi at the narrow part on the right and left. It is surrounded by triple moat around, whose present outer moat was dug again during the Meiji Period. The burial mound had stones and clay figures and yielded clay figures shaping a woman's head and horse. A Sueki earthenware pot was found in the east part of tsukuridashi during 1955 to 1964. A stone coffin placed in a pit-style stone room, sword, fine armor, glass pot and dish were excavated in the rectangular part of the mound in 1872. These things is said to have been put back, but a painting was left out. These is a mirror and sword in the Boston museum, in the U.S.A, which are said to have been found in the mound. There are more than 10 tumuli, which are considered to be baizuka, around this largest keyhole-shaped burial mound in Japan. The burial mound is thought to have been constructed in the fifth century, younger than Misanzai Tumulus(Richu Tumulus ). It is 2.7km around the entire course.