What are Kofun? Ancient Japanese History

Описание: Little did I realise Japan is COVERED in these huge tombs known as Kofun, some as big as 80 acres.

Perhaps these are more famous and I'm an idiot but I had genuinely never heard of these until about a month ago. They were all built between 250 and 538 CE and they stopped as suddenly as they appeared.

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Sources:
Ishino, Hironobu, and 石野博信. "Rites and Rituals of the Kofun Period." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 19, no. 2/3 (1992): 191-216. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30234190.

Kitagawa, Joseph M. "Prehistoric Background of Japanese Religion." History of Religions 2, no. 2 (1963): 292-328. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1062069.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofun_p...

Image Attributions:
663highland, Matsumoto Castle05s5s4592, CC BY-SA 3.0
Lincun, Map of Japan with highlight on 28 Hyogo prefecture, CC BY-SA 3.0
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PHGCOM, DotakuBronzeBellLateYayoi3rdCenturyCE, CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikiwikiyarou, Bronze Mirror in Ancient Japan, CC BY-SA 4.0
Miguel Hermoso Cuesta, Caballo Haniwa Guimet 01, CC BY-SA 4.0

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