Category:

Municipally Designated Historic Site

Title:

Sobagaito kofun-gun

The Sobagaito Mounded Tomb Group

側ヶ谷戸古墳群

No. of features:

• Inarizuka Mounded Tomb (1 tomb)
• Daikochi Inarizuka Mounded Tomb (1 tomb)
• Chausuzuka Mounded Tomb (1 tomb)
• Sannoyama Mounded Tomb (1 tomb)
• Kamino Inarizuka Mounded Tomb (1 tomb)

Designated:

March 6, 1957

Location:

4-chome Mihashi, Omiya Ward

Owner:

Saitama City, private owners

Description:

   This group of mounded tombs, or “kofun”, is located near the Kamogawa River in the western part of the city.

   While 5 tombs within Omiya Ward are designated together as a group, an excavation in the neighborhood brought evidence of even more “kofun” lying between 4-chome Mihashi, Omiya Ward, and 4-chome Ennami, Chuo Ward.

Thanks to discoveries of “haniwa” earthen statues shaped like cylinders, humans, and horses, we can infer that these mounded tombs were constructed during the 6th and 7th centuries.  

Associated Texts:

(1960). “Cultural Properties in Omiya” (vol. 1). Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

(1965). “Cultural Properties in Omiya”. Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

(1973). “Survey Report on Omiya City’s Cultural Properties” (vol. 6). Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

(1987). “Cultural Properties in Omiya” (vol. 3). Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

(1987). “Survey Report on Omiya City’s Cultural Properties” (vol. 23). Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

(2001). “Survey Report on Omiya City’s Cultural Properties” (vol. 50). Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

Please be courteous towards other visitors, locals, and the sites’ owners/curators when visiting these cultural properties.

Inquiries (Japanese only)

Cultural Heritage Preservation Division, Department of Lifelong Learning, Board of Education Secretariat　

TEL：048-829-1723 FAX：048-829-1989

https://www.city.saitama.lg.jp/004/005/006/001/005/001/003/p000491.html