🏛️ Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan
UNESCO World Heritage Site of 49 keyhole-shaped burial mounds in Osaka Prefecture
📋 Fast Facts
- 49 ancient burial mounds (kofun) built during the 3rd–6th centuries AD
- Nintoku-tenno-ryo Kofun is the largest tomb in Japan at 486 meters long
- UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2019
- Located across Sakai, Habikino, and Fujiidera cities in Osaka Prefecture
The Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group represents the richest material testimony to Japan's Kofun period (250–538 AD), a time of significant social and political consolidation marked by the emergence of powerful clans and the establishment of unified state structures. This concentration of 49 burial mounds, scattered across two clusters in Osaka Prefecture, showcases the funerary practices, social hierarchies, and artistic traditions of ancient Japan. The site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage ...