A clustered cemetery spread across the Shinodayama hills in northern Izumi. The Izumi and Izumiotsu city boards of education's preservation and utilization plan for the Ikegami-Sone Site (2021) records more than 100 mounds. The name Senzuka denotes a great many tombs; no known record shows that the actual total exceeded one thousand.
Finds & research
Finds are published mound by mound in excavation reports (for example, Izumi City Board of Education, 2005, Shinoda Senzuka Kofun Group).
Official status & archaeological view
Official status
It is a registered buried cultural property site in Izumi City. Shinoda Kitsunezuka, regarded as the group's leading mound, was designated an Osaka Prefecture Historic Site (as Kitsunezuka Kofun) on 31 March 1993.
Archaeological view
A large Late Kofun-period clustered cemetery of more than 100 mounds on the Shinodayama hills. A 2016 Osaka Center for Cultural Heritage report describes mounds dating from the end of the Early to the Terminal Kofun period scattered over an area about 1.2km east–west and 3.0km north–south. Mound forms, burial facilities, and survival vary.
Field notes
The hills include a Self-Defense Force training area and other restricted land, so visitors must remain on public roads and in areas explicitly open to the public.