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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Ishiumadani Alternative Name: 石馬谷、石馬ヶ谷,IshiumagataniCountry: Japan
NOTE: This site is 19.343 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Yonago (Tottori pref.) Nearest Village: Yodoechō-Fukuoka 淀江
Latitude: 35.453240N Longitude: 133.444440E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Sculptured Stone in Honshū. An exceptional example of "Sekiba(=stone horse)" found in Honshū island though other "Sekijin(=stone human)"'s and a "Sekiba" were only found in Kyūshū island.
This is supposed to be attached to a keyhole-shaped tumulus Ishiumadani Kofun (石馬谷古墳),35.45211N,133.44290E.
Once this stone was placed in the museum (35.45353N,133.442999E) near the "Hōki Kodai no Oka Kōen(伯耆古代の丘公園)" tumuli park. Because of a political protest claiming 'the separation of religion (=the stone horse is lent to the parade of the local shrine) and politics (=the museum was built with public money)', the horse was forced to move to the storehouse of Ameno-Kamigaki Jinja(天神垣神社) shrine.
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