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Submitted by Aska on Wednesday, 04 November 2020 Page Views: 1408

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Kiwa-no Saku Alternative Name: Kiwanosaku 城輪柵 Kiwa-no Ki
Country: Japan Region: Honshū Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Sakata (Yamagata prefecture) Nearest Village: Kiwa 城輪
Latitude: 38.963750N Longitude: 139.909360E
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

2 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

3 Access:

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 Accuracy:

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
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

5

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**Kiwa-no Saku** submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan (Vote or comment on this photo)

One of the Jōsaku (城柵) vanguard fortresses established by the Yamato (now Nara in central Japan). ‘jō’ means ‘castle’, and ‘saku’ means ‘fence’. They were, in a sense, fortified colonial towns in the then unexplored area in the Tōhoku (north-eastern) region which was then home to the native “Emishi” tribes.

It is thought this fortress was built to replace the function of a branch of the central government of Akita-jō which was often disturbed by attacks by native tribes.
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