The Imperial Household Agency together with Sakai urban centre regime began their outset articulation digging projection Oct. 23 on the nation's largest burial mound, evidently built for an emperor over 1,500 years ago.
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| The massive burial mound, criterion some 486m × 305m, is a typical Japanese keyhole-shaped tumulus from a bird's oculus sentiment [Credit: Asahi Shimbu] |
The site, likewise known every bit Nintoku-ryo kofun (Tomb of Emperor Nintoku), is most 486 meters long together with 307 meters wide, together with surrounded past times a three-tiered moat.
Researchers conception to dig iii trenches most 2 meters broad together with 28 to xxx meters long across the embankment approximately the moat straightaway surrounding the mound, 1 on the eastern side together with 2 on the southern banks.
The digging is scheduled to hold upward completed inwards early on December.
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| The burial mound is traditionally attributed to Emperor Nintoku (257-399 CE) [Credit: Aska/The Megalithic Portal] |
The Imperial Household Agency is planning to bear revetment operate inwards coming years on the mound together with embankments every bit business office of conservation operate for the entire site.
It hopes to hit basic information to aid conception hereafter revetment operate from the project.
“We promise to hand a positive effect amongst cooperation from Sakai city,” Masashi Tokuda, an Imperial burial mounds researcher from the agency, told The Asahi Shimbun inwards an interview earlier digging commenced.
The means lists the burial mound every bit the tomb of Emperor Nintoku.
However, it has refused scholars permission to bear extensive query on the mound, together with the claim has never been archeologically proven.
Author: Yasufumi Kado | Source: The Asahi Shimbun [October 23, 2018]
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