Artworks

Daisen Kofun

Artwork · Anonymous · late 4th century–early 5th century

The largest of the keyhole-shaped burial mounds, traditionally the tomb of Emperor Nintoku: almost half a kilometre long, surrounded by three moats, 185 ha in all. Over twenty thousand haniwa are thought to have stood on it. 1 Mason 2005, p. 29, fig. 24. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.