Tsukamyojin Tomb - Tsukamyojin Tomb

Japanese: 束明神古墳 - つかみょうじんこふん

This is a tumulus from the end of the Kofun period, located in Takatori-cho, Takaichi-gun, Nara Prefecture. In 1984, the Kashihara Prefectural Archaeological Institute investigated a stone coffin with a horizontal opening, made of cut tuff stone, which had already been considerably destroyed. Restoration revealed that the stone coffin had an inner diameter of about 3m in length, 2m in width, and 2.5m in height, and that the Chinese ruler and golden section were used. Only a few artifacts remain, including a lacquer film thought to be a fragment of a wooden coffin, gilt bronze metal fittings, and nails. The circular base fittings are similar to those excavated from Takamatsuzuka. The mound was also investigated at the same time, and it was estimated to have been an octagonal plan with a width of about 30m. Based on the shape of the mound, it is believed that the buried person was a member of the imperial family, but there has been much debate over who the buried person was. Teeth analysis indicated that it was a woman or a slender man around 30 years old. Based on the above and the correspondence between the place names "Dannooka" and "Sadanooka" which appear in the elegy for Prince Kusakabe in the "Manyoshu" and Mayumioka and Sada, where this tumulus is located, the most likely theory is that this is the tomb of Prince Kusakabe, who died in 689 at the age of 27.

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Japanese:

奈良県高市郡高取町にある古墳時代終末期の古墳。 1984年に県立橿原考古学研究所が，すでにかなり破壊されていた凝灰岩切石積の横口式の石槨を調査した。復元の結果石槨は，内径が長さ約 3m，幅 2m，高さ 2.5mの規模で，唐尺および黄金分割の使用が推定された。遺物はわずかしか残っておらず，木棺の破片と考えられている漆の膜，金銅製の金具，釘などが出土。円座金具は高松塚出土品に類似する。同時に墳丘も調査された結果，さしわたしが 30mほどの八角形の平面形をしていたものと推測され，墳丘の形から被葬者は皇族であろうと考えられているが，被葬者をめぐって多くの議論がなされた。歯の鑑定では，30歳前後の女性ないし細身の男性のものという特徴が示されている。以上と，『万葉集』草壁皇子挽歌に見える「檀乃岡」「佐太乃岡」の地名と本古墳の所在する真弓岡，佐田の対応より，689年に 27歳で死んだ草壁皇子の陵墓とする説が有力である。

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