Wakayama Prefecture Kii-fudoki-no-oka Museum of Archaeology and Folklore

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
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
Address1411 Iwase
Town or cityWakayama, Wakayama Prefecture
CountryJapan
Coordinates34°13′40″N 135°13′47″E / 34.227842°N 135.229640°E / 34.227842; 135.229640
OpenedAugust 1971
Technical details
Floor area1,687m2
Website
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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.

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  1. ^ 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.
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