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Samuraizuka Kofun

Ōtawara-shi, Japan

The Samuraizuka Kofun is a pair of Kofun period burial mounds located in the Yuzukami neighborhood of the city of Ōtawara in Tochigi Prefecture in the northern Kantō region of Japan. Both received protection as a National Historic Site in 1951. The neighborhood has many smaller kofun, including one keyhole-shaped tumulus, seven dome-shaped tumuli and one square-shaped tumulus, which are covered under an Ōtawara City Historic Site designation.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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