A group in Kawai-cho and Kimura-cho, Higashiomi. Its two surviving mounds, Amagoiyama and Kubotayama, are designated Shiga Prefectural Historic Sites and have been restored in Yukyu-no-Oka Akane Kofun Park.
Finds & research
Stone facing and possible chamber stones were documented at both mounds. Rows of cylindrical haniwa were found at Kubotayama. Their burial structures remain uncertain.
Official status & archaeological view
Official status
Shiga Prefectural Historic Site (1990).
Archaeological view
Higashiomi City describes Amagoiyama as a late-5th-century square mound about 65m per side and 11m high, and Kubotayama as a 57m round mound with projections to north and south. A 1985 Shiga Prefectural Board of Education report gives Amagoiyama as about 62m east–west by 65m north–south and Kubotayama as about 54m in diameter. A pit-style chamber is inferred at Amagoiyama. Kensaizuka, once considered round, was shown by a 2000 survey to be square, about 65m per side.
Field notes
Free access as Akane Kofun Park (Akane Kofun Koen-mae bus stop); the mounds are climbable. The pin marks Kubotayama.