Makimuku ruins

There is a theory that they are the center of Yamatai country, and six ancient burial mounds such as Hashihaka Kofun are distributed.

The streams of Mount Miwa, Makimukyamata and Anashiyama join the Makimuku River, and archaeological sites are formed on its alluvial fan.

A short distance to the south of the site, a large number of pottery shards dating to the middle and late Yayoi period have been excavated, as well as square moated tomb and pit dwelling.

[2]。From the remains of the river, special vessel bases were excavated, which have been found at the Kibi Tate Tsuki and Miyakizaka sites.

After the fifteenth survey in 1977, the research was transferred from the Archaeological Institute of Kashihara to the Sakurai As of December 2008, only 5% of the site had been excavated.

[6]。In 2011, more than six types of fish bones and scales were found at the site, including Madai, Horsefish, Mackerel and Common carp.

[2][8]She was the aunt of Emperor Sojin, but from the point of view of a foreigner (Chen Shou), she could be forgiven for being as wrong as his nephew and brother.

[8]。 After saying this, Terasawa concluded, "There is no other huge settlement in the Japanese archipelago in the third century that has such a total of archaeological and philological features.

Therefore, it is highly probable that the third-century site of Gengen was the city where the capital palace of the first kingship of the archipelago, called the Yamato Kingdom, was located".

Hironobu Ishino also argues that it was not a naturally occurring village but an artificially built city, based on the discovery of a large ditch and a ritual site with a seawall leading to the Yamato River, the unusually large number of pottery artifacts from outside the Kinki region, and the fact that at least one out of every five people at Gengen is estimated to have come from outside the Yamato region.