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Site Name: Koumare-ishi Alternative Name: 子生まれ石Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 119.232 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Makinohara (Shizuoka prefecture) Nearest Village: Nishi-Hagima 西萩間
Latitude: 34.732000N Longitude: 138.153020E
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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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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From the riverside cliff in a mountain, strange cocoon-shaped stones stick out and fall down to the ground by the river gradually. Koumere-ishi means ‘baby bearing stones (or spawned-like baby stones)’, it has been regarded as one of 7 secrets in Enshū (present day Shizuoka prefecture). In fact they are geological ‘nodule’ of sandstone produced in the stratum of sands and the nodule come out by the collapse of surrounding sand stratum.
Nearby Buddhist temple Daikō-ji (大興寺 34.73051N,138.15776E) utilize these stones for the tombstones of successive chief priests.
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