At Yadawara, Nara, this is managed by the Imperial Household Agency as the mausoleum of Prince Shiki, posthumously Emperor Kasuganomiya. Prince Shiki was a Man'yoshu poet and was posthumously elevated by his son, Emperor Konin.
Finds & research
The public sources consulted do not record a burial facility or finds.
Official status & archaeological view
Official status
Managed by the IHA as the Tahara-no-Nishi Mausoleum of the posthumously titled Emperor Kasuganomiya (Prince Shiki, son of Emperor Tenji, father of Emperor Konin). The IHA lists its official form as a round tumulus (enkyu).
Attribution (jitei): the Imperial Household Agency's determination of whose tomb it manages — separate from heritage designation.
Archaeological view
Nara Prefecture's site list gives a mound diameter of 40 m; the list does not record its date, burial facility, or finds.
Field notes
Immediately by the Tahara Goryo-mae bus stop. A monument bearing Prince Shiki's Man'yoshu poem stands at the entrance. According to Nara Prefecture, seen from the tomb of O no Yasumaro, Emperor Konin's Tahara-no-Higashi Mausoleum lies about 700m to the northeast and the Tahara-no-Nishi Mausoleum about 1.6km to the southwest.