An early cluster on a ridge running from Mt. Kannabi in Takigi, Kyotanabe. Its setting, overlooking the succession of mound forms, embodies the very process by which the Yamashiro chiefs were absorbed into the Yamato order.
Finds & research
Haniwa fragments (No.1); pottery fragments and cinnabar (No.4). Burials: reportedly a clay enclosure (No.1), a clay enclosure or direct wooden-coffin burial (No.4), unknown (No.3).
Official status & archaeological view
Official status
Part of the National Historic Site "Tsuzuki Kofun Group" (2022).
Archaeological view
An early cluster comprising Tenriyama No. 1 (57m keyhole), No. 3 (82m keyhole; 81m in the Agency for Cultural Affairs designation text), and No. 4 (42m square-fronted, square-backed); No. 2 is unlocated. Their sequence—No. 4, No. 1, then No. 3—traces changing chiefly mound forms in 4th-century southern Yamashiro.
Field notes
Unmaintained steep terrain — no entry; the mounds cannot be viewed from the surrounding residential area.