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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Sakafuneishi Alternative Name: 酒船石 Sakafune-ishiCountry: Japan Region: Honshū Type: Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Asuka-mura (Nara pref.) Nearest Village: Oka 岡
Latitude: 34.475226N Longitude: 135.823556E
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 |
| 0 | no data |
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The shape of the hollows are reminiscent of a sacrifice table. Also the angles of the branches are similar to the angles of the sunsets between equinoxes and solstices. The continuous hollows on the edges are the remains of wedges cut into the bricks for the rampart of Takatori Castle 5 km away.
Now, the stream which start from this stone is supposed to have passed through Kamegata-Sekizōbutsu and Demizu-no-Sakafune-ishi. They might consist an amusement facility in the oldest capitol of Japan "Asuka."
Another stone with similar hollows was situated near Eisan-ji (栄山寺) temple in Gojō (五條) city, 10km away from Asuka. Sadly this stone was blasted into debris during the road construction before the World War 2nd.
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