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The is a museum in Gyōda, Saitama, Japan. The building is inside of
Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds at Google Cultural Institute
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The is a museum in Gyōda, Saitama, Japan. The building is inside of Sakitama Kofun Park Sakitama may refer to:
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*Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds, a museum administrated by Saitama Prefecture and located in Gyōda, Saitama, Japan
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. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.
The museum was originally established as in 1969 as part of the construction of , an archeological preserve encompassing the Sakitama Kofun
are megalithic tombs or tumuli in Northeast Asia. ''Kofun'' were mainly constructed in the Japanese archipelago between the middle of the 3rd century to the early 7th century CE.岡田裕之「前方後円墳」『日本古代史大辞典』 ...
Cluster. In 2006, Saitama Prefecture renamed the museum as Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds and made its goals the research, collection, preservation of the site's archeological data as well as educating the site's cultural and historical value to its visitors.
Nearly 100,000 visitors come to the museum every year to learn about Sakitama Kofun Cluster and its artifacts, including a national treasure, Inariyama Sword
The iron or was excavated at the Inariyama Kofun in 1968. Inariyama Kofun is a megalithic tomb located in Saitama Prefecture. In 1978, X-ray analysis revealed a gold-inlaid inscription that comprises at least 115 Chinese characters. This sword ...
. The museum consists of two buildings, Sakitama Shiseki Hall and Shōgunyama Kofun Exhibit Hall, which opened in 1997 and allows visitors to walk inside of the reconstructed stone chamber of the Shōgunyama Kofun.See also
*List of National Treasures of Japan (archaeological materials)
The term "National Treasure" has been used in Japan to denote cultural properties since 1897.
The definition and the criteria have changed since the introduction of the term. These archaeological materials adhere to the current definition, and h ...
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*https://web.archive.org/web/20080929032431/http://www.sakitama-muse.spec.ed.jp/top-page/home.html Museum official websiteMuseum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds at Google Cultural Institute
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