A terminal-period tomb at Tani, Sakurai, Nara, designated a National Historic Site and preserving a chamber built of huge granite blocks and a house-shaped sarcophagus.
Finds & research
A horizontal stone chamber and hollowed-out house-shaped sarcophagus survive; the occupant is unknown.
Official status & archaeological view
Official status
A National Historic Site.
Archaeological view
A square mound about 24m across and 7m high (Agency for Cultural Affairs designation text; the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties' national cultural-property database), dated to the mid-7th century. A hollowed-out house-shaped tuff sarcophagus survives in its horizontal stone chamber built of huge granite blocks.