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Medieval (High and Late)Site Name: Hatten Ishigura Alternative Name: 八天石蔵Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 3.182 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Nearest Town: Minō (Ōsaka pref.) Nearest Village: AoMatani 粟生間谷
Latitude: 34.864780N Longitude: 135.500120E
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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Stone pyramid in Honshū
Around Katsuō-ji (勝尾寺) temple, 8 Buddhist statuettes (4 Wisdom Kings and 4 Heavenly Kings) in ceramic pots were buried as the protecting amulets for the boundary of the temple's precinct (now they are preserved in the treasury of the temple). Those statuettes were supposed to be produced and buried in medieval age (circa 1230). On the burial point, strange stone setting like pyramid were placed, some scholars point out the similarity between the Buddhist proto-pagodas in the 8th century : Zutō, Dotō and Kumayama Iseki.
"Hatten Ishigura" means 'stone vaults for 8 heavenly kings'. The Wisdom Kings should be 5 in total, so it is rumored that statuette of Acala is hidden under the octagonal prism stone called Yōgō-ishi (影向石) in the precinct of Katsuō-ji temple.
Visiting all the sites might be a healthy hiking (10km, 3-4hours).
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