Wakayama Prefecture Kii-fudoki-no-oka Museum of Archaeology and Folklore (和歌山県立紀伊風土記の丘, Wakayama kenritsu fudoki-no-oka) is an archaeology museum located in the outskirts of the city of Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
Wakayama Prefecture Kii-fudoki-no-oka Museum of Archaeology and Folklore | |
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和歌山県立紀伊風土記の丘 | |
![]() Wakayama Prefecture Kii-fudoki-no-oka Museum of Archaeology and Folklore | |
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General information | |
Address | 1411 Iwase |
Town or city | Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture |
Country | Japan |
Coordinates | 34°13′40″N 135°13′47″E / 34.227842°N 135.229640°E |
Opened | August 1971 |
Technical details | |
Floor area | 1,687m2 |
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It was opened in August 1971 with the main purpose of preserving, researching, and displaying artifacts from the Iwase-Senzuka Kofun Cluster, a Special National Historic Site. [1]
The museum encompasses a 65 hectare area containing about 400 kofun burial mounds, restored pit dwellings, relocated old folk houses of the Edo period (including two which are designated Important Cultural Properties, and a botanical garden.
The museum building itself was built by donations from Matsushita Konosuke, the industrialist who founded Panasonic, and is styled after a raised-floor warehouse from the Yayoi period, and is covered with the same type of stone used in the burial chambers of the tumuli in the adjacent Iwase-Senzuka Kofun Cluster.
The museum contains items excavated from these kofun, as well as pottery excavated from the ruins of Negoro-ji and other locations and folk implements.
Gallery
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Yanagawa house (ICP)
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restored pit dwelling
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Kofun period materials from Dainichiyama No.35 Kofun
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Fragments of haniwa
See also
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edit- ^ 和歌山県立紀伊風土記の丘 [Wakayama Prefecture Kii-fudoki-no-oka] (in Japanese). Wakayama Prefecture Kii-fudoki-no-oka. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
External links
editMedia related to Kiifudoki-no-oka Museum of History at Wikimedia Commons