Japan's mysterious 'keyhole' tombs - BBC REEL
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 พ.ย. 2019
- A sense of mystery surrounds the keyhole-shaped kofun tombs in Japan.
Although the iconic Mozu Tombs in Sakai city, Osaka have recently been awarded UNESCO World Heritage status, surprisingly little is actually known about these intriguing monuments, kept under lock and key by the Japanese government.
Video by Matt Dworzańczyk
Image courtesy of Sakai City Government and Sakai City Museum
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im 33 and this is the first ive ever heard of these!
same here
Same here lol I'm 34 and take active interest and watch LOADS of videos about ancient monuments and I've NEVER heard of these before. I wonder if those idiotic Ancient Aliens guys have cottoned on to this site yet? Clearly it's an ancient alien monument....*Rolls eyes*
Same here
Basically they're lying to you. The tombs are not excavated because they are, (or are believed to be), the tombs of early Japanese emperors. As such they are the property of the imperial family. I don't know about today but in Hirohito's reign whenever he made a proclamation messengers were sent to the tombs to read them to the spirits of his imperial ancestors.
LOL, yeah.. I'm 29, never heard about this ever exist in Japan
Don't be fooled, that's where they kept all of their Gundam.
Brutally Honest and where the turn a sleep
You’re SoOo funny broo
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The samurai will rise again
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When she said " The tombs are sacred, we SHOULDN'T DAMAGE THEM"
Me : Poor Egyptian pyramids
Pyramids weren't tombs.
Tomb of first chinese emperor also restricted, people only have acces to terracota but not the real tomb
The pyramids aren't tombs because no bodies have ever been found in any.
@@rigo.acosta so you mean KingTutankhamun's mummy and other mummies that was found not a corpses?
@@baligirl5472 sweetie, tutankhamun was found in the valley of the kings as all other pharaos, not in a pyramid.
I lived 20 minutes walk away from that largest one. Took me 2 years to know it actually is something like this. Just thought it was a park around a pond.
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I learn something new everyday. Now, who's hiding the giant ass keys???
Maybe the key... Is a pitch or tone. In a musical key.
Sora 😋
King Mickey 😅
What do you think these ass keys were used for?
mickey have the key
It's genius of Japan to not disturb these places even if they're in the middle of cities.
They are the properties of the Imperial family. No one is allowed to come in. Archeologists aren't allow to do any excavation either so no one actually know for sure that whose tombs they are.
America would burn it down but first they tried to see how much money they get from it first
@@thegamingfool524 WRONG
We would put a highway through it😂
yes it's sad to see pyramid got destroyed by researchers
Not genius but stupid to me. They have one of the world's mysteries and yet they dont want to find out.
You dont have to flatten the thing to investigate. Just look at china's army statue tomb.
Japan: "don't dig our historical graves"
Conspiracy theorists: They're hiding an ancient alien portal to the moon!
Seriously if that's my country i would want to know what it is. They are afraid that they might be wrong.that it's not any important figure and have to face their foolishness. We know about egypt becos people explored the pyramid. It's laughable they wanna compare it to egypt when they are so close minded. "Tradition" is peer pressure from dead people. And japan doesnt have the best tradition anyways. Toxic misogyny and chauvinistic.
Some of the comments are so silly. Videos literally showed there are a few of various sizes. And 70 dumb ppl just agreed blindly that there's only 1. Not to mention those butthurt by facts and start the ad homien attack. University rejecting women even tho they did better, forcing women to wear heels, system that discourage working mom^pregnant staff get fired/unable to get promotion/unpaid leave, expectations that household chores are just for women etc etc.
@@RonLarhz there are thousands of pyramids. Therefore they were willing to sacrifice one of them for experiment. But there is only one of those in Japan. So they didnt want to take the risk🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@RonLarhz what world are you from. Seriously
@@RonLarhz "It's laughable they wanna compare it to egypt when they are so close minded" He's just comparing the surface area, did you even watch the video properly?
@@kentoooooooooooooooooooooooooo there’s actually a few. Not as many as the pyramids but... I get not wanting to disturb them. It would just be really cool to know the history. If it were in my country, I would want a glimpse into the past.
Ummmm I'm sorry, how am I now just learning about these mysterious tombs smacked in the middle of Japanese cities?!?!?
because it just looks like a mound in a lake from ground level, even many japanese don't know what it is
fr we're all like: "HoW DiD We GeT HeRe?!😵"
I first saw them from ancient aliens.
@@mehmeh3894 are you sure bud? We learn this at the age of 10 in school everyone knows what these kofuns are lmao.
@@ananasie1211 I'm sure it is in reference to the many comments saying "I'm Japanese and I had no idea this was here!"
So go complain to them lol
When you use Kansai International Airport (KIX), you can clearly see this huge tomb from the plane windows a few minutes after taking off or before landing. That view is just great!!
I flew in at night from the other direction. No chance.
ナスカの地上絵もそうだけど上から見ないとその全貌がわからないとこに凄いロマンを感じる！そしてこんなに綺麗に形を整えて創造できる技術に驚き😍
これが全国にいまだに残ってる訳だからロマンだよね
今は陸地だが当時の海岸線ギリギリに建設されている
つまり交流があった中華王朝へのディスプレイも兼ねている
@@user-ct3bj5dz2m さん
東大阪の芝山古墳なんか、明治まで未盗掘だったのに昭和に壊され宅地になってます
明治に発掘した副葬品は、大英博物館の収蔵庫に…
@この花 さん
芝山古墳はイギリス人のウイリアムガウランド氏が発掘調査しました
日本考古学の父とも言われる方です
たくさんの出土品や詳細な発掘記録が大英博物館に寄贈されています
大きな大王墓以外はどんどん潰されていた時代もあるので、出土品や記録がまとめて保管されている芝山古墳は幸運なほうかもしれません
They’ve known that kingdom hearts is real and we’re just one of the worlds that connects to the kingdom. Maybe we all have the keys to unlock it.
@The web surfer if they were alright then it can't be garbage since garbage would be below average
@The web surfer not square in general just nomuras fault it's gotten to the point where only he was writing the story and made it the shitshow it is today I'm kinda surprised disney let's him do anything after 3
The door to darkness.
I was looking for this comment. Thank you.
@@nepnep8444 Why shouldn't Square allow him to continue when the sales surpassed those of FF7 Remake
Japan's original country name NIPPON means "country under the sun," but the traditional name of the country when the capital was in Nara was YAMATO (WA).
YAMATO means "land of great harmony between people and nature.
The history of Japan is very old, about 2,000 years since the Emperor's reign, but human began to live in villages and communities in this island nation about 14,000 years ago, during “the JOMON pottery” culture.
(That's 30,000 years ago, if you count the Neolithic period.)
Surrounded by the sea on all four sides, geographically isolated from Eurasia in the Pacific Ocean, this island nation has a warm and humid climate and is blessed with abundant clear water resources, a variety of plants, and fishery resources.
Since ancient times, people have lived peacefully with nature.
They have respected harmony, lived peacefully in groups, and overcome many severe natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and typhoons, with each other in groups based on their wisdom and have enjoyed the blessings of nature by cooperating.
The name of the ancient Japanese nation of "YAMATO" or "WA" reflects the wishes and realities of the people to live and to survive in this natural environment of the island nation that differs from that of the Eurasia continent.
I have great respect for their stance to keep the tombs unexcavated. They are correct that one day technology could probably scan them in great detail without disturbing them. This is both respectful of their ancestors as well as forward thinking.
Face it... We look back on the work of early "archaeologists" and get angry because they often practically destroyed sites. Who's to say future generations will not look at current archaeological practices in the same light?
She wasn't telling the truth. The real reason is because the Imperial Household Agency (note: not the Imperial Family) has forbidden excavation and research. The Agency is worried that research may conflict with with the racially chauvinistic narrative constructed by the Agency, and the post-Meiji but pre-WW2 Imperial government.
This is actually a concern posed frequently in modern excavations. Recently I was watching a video on an excavation from the early 2000s and one thing in particular that they did was only excavate a portion of the total site, and then buried the remaining site so that future excavations could be done in the hopes that better science could be done on it.
I know that the agency has forbidden excavation, but is there any evidence that the agency is worried in that way?
At least, most of Japanese people don’t want anybody to break in these tombs of the Imperial Family’s ancestors.
@@Ken-nc7ql The Imperial Household Agency gave that (with slightly different wording) as justification against archeological examination in the 20s and 30s.
Particularly since there's a good chance they're unrelated to the current imperial family.
Also, archaeologists hardly "break in".
Now, do you have any evidence for your assertion that the Japanese people as a whole are against an archaeological examination of the tombs?
日本人の私からすれば、おそらく真実は以下の通りです。
古来より、日本において先人は敬うべき存在であり、ましてや現在の皇族の祖先の墓に踏み入り調査するなどもってのほかです。
他国の人々から見れば、日本の皇室は権力も無く、影の薄い存在に感じられるかもしれませんが、日本の天皇家は、大げさに言えば日本の歴史そのものです。それくらい、彼らの存在は日本国において大きなものであり、そして日本国民は彼らのことを深く敬愛しています。
恐らくこの墓に立ち入り調査を行うことができないのは、この動画で解説された技術的な側面や、上記で言われているような「本当は天皇家の墓ではない」というような陰謀論による影響も幾らかあるでしょうが、一番重要なのは日本人における天皇家の偉大さだと思います。立ち入り調査などをすれば、すぐさま右翼的な国民から批判が飛び交うでしょうから、迂闊に調査は出来ないのです
The reason these tombs are still sacred and off-limits are because the imperial institutions that built them in the first place is still here. Whereas everywhere else kingdoms and dynasties rose and fell, thanks to Japan's insular nature they were never invaded by foreign powers (apart from the relatively short American occupation) and the local governments have consistently preserved the imperial dynasty partly to legitimize themselves. A one-of-a-kind circumstances!
Lol they dont want to do a DNA test that's all. Japanese invaded this region. Also you're incorrect other nations occupied parts of Japan. Like china for exemple
Fujii Keiko I doubt the emperor would descend from Chinese people. Some important clans, if they still exist, may do so. However, due to the legends of the period, there must be quite some fear to prove that somehow the dna of these Korean princes from Silla the legends talk about so much, did end up into the royal family. But he’s right tho, since some of these are considered tombs of past emperors and they claim that the lineage has been kept from the legendary times of Amaterasu to today, technically they’re protecting family heritage and property. Which is why in Europe we can dig up the burial mounds. The religious change, the loss of territory, and the change of hands have prevented European royalty to feel related or even be actually related to the burial monuments of the kings of old, the kings of the pagan past.
That’s because Japanese imperial dynasty never had any real power. They are more or less puppets of big warlords and rich families for most part of the history. That’s why no one wants to get rid of them.
No, it is maybe because they want to cover possible Korean origins of the ruling class.
@@andyeagle7466 Seems weird that they would be embarrassed about their patronage.
I was in Osaka 7 years ago and had no idea these existed. I'm a history enthusiast.
I suppose they don't want visitors so they don't advertise them.
Why wouldn't you. Are the people from that city so xenophobic they don't advertise the history of there city? Something fishy going on here.
@@BaquePhotography it's not xenophobia if countries decide to not let tourists into their sacred sites. A tourist is not entitled to see every single part of a country, especially not holy sites
@@BaquePhotography well, it's their property so they had the rights to kept it secret if they wanted it. We're just outsider that didn't had a right. That simple
@@BaquePhotography It literally says in the video that basically no one is allowed on the site, including archaeologists and researchers. Not just tourists. No one is allowed so it's obviously not xenophobic. They just want to preserve it, much like you're not allowed to go close to Stonehenge or other old remnants. It's not that unusual.
@@thespankmyfrank Letting something rot to oblivion and not learning anything about it while you can is not logical. Plus the actual answer is most likely they know exactly what’s there and the truth is not flattering. Mass grave of some emperors servants, something like that. Something so bad and so big they literally can’t remove it without being noticed.
Imagine archaeologists being so dedicated to the principles of their work they are willing to forego excavation of a once-in-a-lifetime find in order to preserve it for future archaeologists who have the technology to examine it without damaging the find itself. Incredible patience. (Sure, it could also hold secrets about history the government is interested in keeping hidden, but still...)
We still don't know if it's Japanese origin, but however it highly maybe is since Japanese people had 120 emperors, but Ainu people never had an imperial structure to have emperors. Or maybe it can be Korean because they had emperors too.
imagine but that's not the story. archaeologists want access, but are denied by bureaucrats who are lingering on some air of the authority of divine right tied to these sites.
Probably the second one
The technology is already available! So what are you mumbling about??
😢😢😢😢😢
Ancient people: we shall build this giant tomb so that the future generations might remember our kings forever!
Future generations: nani kore? (wth is this?)
Congrats, you know Japanese 👏
@@curumipon7089 hehe well, not really
Oya Oya Oya....😉👌
Or queens. There is theory that one of the tombs belong to Queen Himiko.
People like nejima-kun will still exist to give trivias.
I am really amazed on how Japanese preserve their cultural sites
It's probably Korean origin... But who knows throughtout Japanese people history they have had 120 emperors, maybe many of those emperors are buried inside of it.
@@lonelypeopleruglydeformedc8139 no?
@@lonelypeopleruglydeformedc8139 残念ながら、韓国にある前方後円墳より日本にある前方後円墳の方が古いですし、中華王朝の歴史書にも、古代朝鮮半島諸国の書物にも倭人と半島人は別種と書かれています。
@@lonelypeopleruglydeformedc8139 Don't be silly. In the first place, there are petroglyphs from 6,500 years ago in Japan.
@@lonelypeopleruglydeformedc8139 wrong. It comes from black people in Africa.
I like the fact they valued very much the historical Kofun and let it as is, not excavated just to feed the curiosity of human. I agree that you don't need to destruct historical site, because it will lose its purpose why ancient people build it.
What if theres hot cheetos inside?
"There weren't many conflicts within the country, it would be nice if we could again make society live that way". So pure 🥺
@Garry NevillDon't show off too much with that intelligence now.
@Garry Nevill well it says "within the country" people in it is already enough to make do a peaceful society.
I don't know what she is talking about. Japan is quite the peaceful country. Even its crime rate is lower now than how it was in the 20th century. Considering that Japan has gone through incredibly brutal periods of civil war, nowadays I think their society is very peaceful.
@@pablomonsalve3911 I think she is talking about general conflicts any country and people have. No country is free of those. I think maybe she might also be talking about that all humans are different and some create or seek conflict with others. And other times conflict just arises. Life is unpredictable. As are humans.
@@ts4686 Well then, it's very likely that there was some amount of friction within kofun society, just as today's, but the thing is that we have no records
I mean, today's society builds monuments like Tokyo skytree, and they have societal issues. This was likely true back in the day too
Aliens being a fan of kingdom hearts.
Don't let the """History""" channel know!
DAMN
This is really bizarre, not only is the city of japan in the game, but the key hole is in our world
Exactly 🤣🤣🤣. Mystery solved.
A number of tombs have been researched over the years. The most famous one open to the public in Osaka area would be Imashirozuka Kofun (今城塚古墳) in Takatsuki City. Some scholars think it is the tomb for the 26th Emperor--Keitai Tenou(継体天皇).
what they opened it and they didn't know who is the body...
@@angelabby2379 oh sorry why don't they get his DNA simple and know 100% who it is
@@user-mx4sm9cv7e the body is missing, it appears it was robbed in ancient times
KOREAN
@@Kenny-fh3om
その時代に韓国なんて存在してねえよ
It’s amazing how much space theyve been allowed to take up in a very urban area for such a long time.
The Kofuns were most likely built before the city was as large and dense as it is today.
動画中で解説されておられる、堺市博物館の橘泉さんのお話はとても面白いので、おすすめです。道上さんのラジオで知ったのですが、講演などでも活躍されておられます。
I can see the passion through their eye. I really respect those who love their jobs.
I do somewhat like the fact that they can’t all be excavated and disturbed from how they were - as amazing as ancient history is I feel like displacement of the things and indeed people inside is a little wrong, even if it was so long ago that they were built.
Amazing, thanks for covering those. We should learn more about other ancient cultures apart from Europe and the Middle East.
This is my hometown. The aerial video of this tumulus always shows my parents' house. I've always been proud.
I still can't believe this is bigger than the pyramids in Egypt. Absolutely stunning!
Especially in real estate cramped Japan!
...no its not. have you seen the documentary. the one in china has huge chamber the one in japan is tiny. look at the size of that chamber 1:49 that's like a mini room atmost. better technology to excavate 3m x 3m chamber... i mean
politics at play obviously
@@angelabby2379 u mean qin shi huang's tomb? i think they meant the entire area of the tomb, not the part that possibly houses the body of whoever that is buried inside.
@@angelabby2379 it's literally the largest tomb in the world by SA
Only by surface area. If you consider how flat the mound is, it’s far less technically impressive than the pyramids and could rely far more heavily on landscaping versus the impressive masonry and engineering of the pyramids. I mean, I’m sure some rich guy could buy a few square km of land in the Nevada desert, label it as his tomb and put a small structure on it, and it could be classified as the largest by surface area. These Kofun are indeed very impressive and must have been very challenging to make for the time nonetheless, so no disrespect to them.
Woww... i m 51 and this is the 1st i hv ever heard of this ! And i thought i hv read n seen them all.Ancient wonders like these, i mean.. goes to show.. no matter how old you get, theres still always smthng new you learn.. ☺
Japan: Preserved their ancient tombs.
Pharaohs: I envied you all, I should commanded my subjects to buried me in Japan.
yes after 6000 years? japan didn't even exist until 3000 years ago 🤦🏻♂️🤡.
@@angelabby2379 can't you see it's all in past tense and moreover this is internet how can you take it serious. 🤡
@@ridvirgo1994 you are stpd af!
@@angelabby2379 you too
For real. Europeans literally ate mummies because they believed there was medicinal value in them. That's one of the reasons why mummies are so rare these days, they were literally turned stolen from their tombs, ground to powder, and put into "medicines." Japan is in a much luckier position, having not been invaded and looted by outsiders the way Egypt has been.
Man, I had no idea that Japan holds such thing. That's amazing.
Thanks to youtube. The world will never know this if not introduced to us. Congrats Japan for your UNESCO world heritage site :)
大阪に甲子園球場は無い！
兵庫にあるんやで…( ；∀；)
西宮、尼崎の人らは自分で大阪って言うけど他の人から甲子園大阪って言われたら怒る笑
それ思った😂西宮やもんな…
名探偵コナンで「大阪と言えば？」
と蘭に言われて平次と和葉がそれぞれ「甲子園」「宝塚」と答えて、コナンが頭の中で「どっちも兵庫県じゃねーか」と突っ込んだネタがあった
関東人は、甲子園は大阪にあると思い、関西人は、ディズニーランドは東京にあると思い込む
あなおそろしや
@@lemonade70755 ディズニーランドの場合、名前は東京ディズニーランドだからじゃないの?
That amazing the massive respect they have for their heritage is just amazing
I explored around this area on a bike! Really interesting and amazing scenery!
I'm actually surprised that Osaka has just this one world heritage site, and also that it took till last year
there are kofuns all over japan, not just osaka
The world heritage site is very western oriented
I love this kind of history... so much mystery to it. So fascinating.
There is an island of a treasure in 60 kilometer offing in Fukuoka. It's called mysterious Okinoshima.
80,000 treasures including gold product and a mirror were hidden in this island. The period from the 4th century to the 9th century.
Only a permitted researcher can also land in an island at present.
Japan: Makes giant keyhole tombs
Tetsuya Nomura: I have a *great* idea for a video game
This is one of the real easter eggs we haven’t cracked yet
My first thought was this was confirmation that Kingdom Hearts was real.
Sora: where the heck is the keyhole?
*keyhole 1:01
Japan: Keyhole Tombs are off limits!!
Sora and Gang: Did someone says *KEYHOLE* ???
Yess!! Kingdom Hearts! Who knew it was inspired by some real life scenery!
@@haitaiamber5805 so this is the reason KH4 or Verum Rex is in Japan
lol I was looking for this kind of comment as soon as I read 'keyhole'
@@devinavaniautami5874 lol! we're intrepid folks!
Lol 😂
I remember seeing of museum of these tombs when I was a kid visiting Japan, interesting to look back on it now
See, thisis why I love you tube. When you take away all the "great " you tubers, you get that kind of video and you actually discover so much.
He said "it's a history of the nation of Japan" and I thought, wow, the keyhole shape really looks like a tall pyramid with a rising sun behind it
I used to live right across the street from Daisen kofun. I could see it from my balcony. Now I’m 15 minutes away but still accessible. It really is lovely to walk around there! The museum is nice as well!
Fascinating! Conspiracies aside, I hope they continue to respect the grave site. It's rare these days to respect such sites because of the curiosity and monetization that could come from them.
Never even heard of these. Wow.
First time I heard about this keyhole shaped tombs, am sorry for that and happy to be able and learn more about them
Sorry for what?
Sorry for me to learn so late about these keyhole shaped tombs
I always have wanted to live in Japan like Japanese people may my wish be granted one day. ❤️❤️
I’ve been here and it’s so awesome!!
Indeed, there's always new thing to watch in TH-cam
I am so Happy they are preserving it. I love things like this. 😍😍😍
HOW AM I JUST NOW HEARING OF IT?
It’s very cool lol I got excited
I love how they're surrounded by groves, despite such urban areas.
Whoever built this, did it to be remembered. Now they about to forget it.
They did it to respect the dead not be remembered in time of course they wanted the tombs to last as long as possible but that's as far as it went they are right to leave the tombs alone do you think their ancestors would want to be dug up and their treasures displayed in a glass case.
@@sweet1j I think for historical purposes it should be dug up to understand the past. and the fact that Japanese archaeologists are working in places like Egypt mean that they shouldn't be exempt from having there tombs an ancient sights investigated, these people are long dead and records for such a time are scarce so it only makes sense to carefully and thoughtfully dig up the structures.
@@jordanmason7127 except ancient history in Japan, especially that of powerful individuals have implications on the current royal family. They claim descent from their gods. Anything that is revealed in archeological digs will have repercussions on the still living royal family. Egypt's royalties are long gone. That might be the difference.
I feel like there's a joke in that comment. (Albeit, I've only lost my keys once, so far.)
@@jordanmason7127
It is their religion and they believe they will insult their ancestors.
They do not care for Egyptians, not even Copts do.
For Copts, the pharaohs are nothing but blasphemers and idol-worshippers, so they are too O.K. with pyramids being dug up.
I appreciate the Japanese culture and their respect to tombs!
not really. the expert is not dumb. they know that the tomb wouldn't have crazy treasure as someone might expect from tutankhamun or etc.
its not worth the lose of identity of the japanese xD. if the dna of the person buried shown 80% similarities to chinese or korean
@@angelabby2379
I'm japanese. Sorry for my bad English.
The nation formation of Japan started after international interchanges with china and korea. so, dna is similar, but japanese mind is really different from korean or china.
in addition, haniwa is very worth and treasure. As japanese, we have minds respecting ancestor.
@@angelabby2379What you said is wrong in some respects. If you want to talk about Japanese history, you should learn much more.
@@angelabby2379 People already discovered a lot of DNAs of ancient Japanese which are much older than Kofun era. Analysis of the oldest ones showed that the Japanese ancestors are clearly different from people in the continent according to Y chromosome haplogroup, with only a bit relations to the Tibetan people confirmed. Bones from later ages (some hundred years before Kofun era) were found to have some similarities with Korean DNA, but no wonder, everyone knows that there was the immigration from Korean peninsula to the west of Japan in around 3 to 4 centuries BCE.
Too bad this respect doesn’t apply to people alive today being bullied at school, at work to the point of ending their life
Thats why i like japan they respecting their ancestors by letting it stand there not digging it for research or something.
Those are legendary Pokémon slumbers. You need a specific key item to wake them up
The key have been lost for thousand of years, rumor has it a gold klefki stole it. Many trainers have been trying to catch this rare klefki, but none of them found the klefki with the real key.
It's a keyhole from Kingdom Hearts. Waiting to be unlocked by Keyblade. Sora the bearer of Keyblade will visit this world someday in the future. Let's we prepare for his coming from now on.
Would be strange to see that whenever that somehow would happen, they would stand there, check their pockets and say, "who brought the key, did you bring the key, you told me you had it, because I haven't now who forgot the key!!"
guess heartless would be bunch of heartless people with guns. for real sora need a helmet and camo suit
Don't worry, sora is in shibuya in the next game, he will go there on kingdom hesrts 5 haha
Okay I believe you
Where can I read more about the kingdom hearts, sora??
They should scan with deep radar scans. Also, they could piece-by-piece explore it with drones that can hover just above the surface of the tomb.
have you seen the documentary. the one in china has huge chamber the one in japan is tiny. look at the size of that chamber 01:49 that's like a mini room atmost. better technology to excavate 3m x 3m chamber... i mean
politics at play obviously
@@angelabby2379 not exactly a political play
I love small features like these specially when it's the first time that I'm learning about it.
I had only seen keyholes like this when my wife played Kingdom Hearts. That's incredible.
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Not good information in this program for being a BBC Documentary. I'm not sure what it exactly means by "(not allowing archeological excavation is to hide" the embarrassing pasts" but certainly, this is considered as a "living" tomb where direct descendants still live and thus not an archeological site, and certainly not embarrassing for having imperial prestige that was capable of building 525m tombs.
There are 200,000 of such ancient "kohun" tombs throughout Japan from Kagoshima (Southen part of Kyusyu) to Miyagi (Mid-Touhoku area) made between the 3rd and 7th century. They come in different sizes, as only about 120 kohuns being larger than 100m long. They also come in different shapes, like circles, double circles, squares, double squares, and octagon. The keyhole shape tomb seems to be reserved for emperors and their immediate families.
Most historians think making tombs were wintertime public works similar to Egyptian pyramids. Because this is the era when rice-based agricultural expansions were happening in Japan, some theorized that excavated soils were put together for the duration of imperial or regional reigns and water moats could have used as reservoirs for surrounding rice field. The Emperor Nintoku, the likely occupant of the tombs in the video, had one of the longest reigns in this era.
The "embarassing past" refers to some suggestions that the early Japanese Emperors may have actually married Chinese women, which if true - would suggest that the royal family is not a "pure" as they want the population to believe. A lot of this is speculation and some historians suggested that the Mozu Kofuns may hold further clues - which the royal family may not want exposed.
I don't say it's one way or the other - just clarifying what the note about 'embarassing pasts' was suggesting!
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> some suggestions that the early Japanese Emperors may have actually married Chinese women
Never heard that story. The Wife of Emperor Nintoku was known to be Iwa-no-Hime, a daughter of Katsuragi-no-Sotsuhiko who governed the hilly area east of the tomb. Nintoku himself is described in the Chinese text "Book of Song Dynasty" and has no description of him getting a Chinese wife. I would imagine, marrying with Chinese blood would have been something honorable at the time in Asia seeing through proto-Manchuria/Korean tribal mythology, and that kind of homogenous "nationalism" is a product of the 19~20th century.
There is actually an already debunked old theory that the Japanese imperial family was of horse-riders coming through Manchuria, but again, I don't see why they had to hide the fact that they were conquerers.No archeological or historical evidence suggests that as all imperial traditions are related to farming, not herding or hunting.
@RipJagger I'm the producer of this mini-doc, am simply sharing addt'l info provided by the historians and researchers during the interviews which didnt make it into the final cut.
A lot about these tombs is left to speculation, the researchers are not even fully certain who was burried there. If there was any truth to these theories about foreign intermarriage - then there might be a correlation between the fact you never heard such stories and the fact that royal family doesnt want anyone doing any research there. If the tombs held clues to some 'ancient socio-political secrets' which could shake up the very foundation of national and cultural identity and what people were lead to believe for centuries - then surely one could see the reasoning in wanting to keep such secrets burried.
Im not a historian - simply sharing add'l information provided by researchers during filming.
same... I like history and ancient discovery but this first I heard (today).
I love how they arent excavating the burials. Usually videos i see of historical burials include people digging them up and ruining them
I love ancient history but I never thought one such also exists in Japan.
it is now 2020 March 21 and i’m still learning on a daily basses and never heard of this site until now 🤣🤣 thanx for teaching me something new 🤣
They are beautiful, the fact that wild life has is allowed to strive with no or little human interference leaves places like these with a mysterious charm😍
Japan: tombs are sacred...
tomb raiders: there must be treasures c:
how much treasure can it fit into 2x2m coffin :0 1:49 must be immeasurable
To a degree but there are non invasive ways to explore tombs now with technology. Learning about the past, about their practices helps us now.
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@@azrulnajmi4062 ask Armin or Eren lol
The kofun grave is about 160,000 in Japan.
and In the maximum one , full length is 520m. It is the world's largest grave.
It naned NINTOKU Emperor's kofun.
If you are interested, please come to Japan and have a look.
His spirit now rests in peace without worrying about excavation.
Fascinating.
Wowww! Never heard about kofun before! Very interesting video ^_^
As OSAKA guy, I love how he used super local baseball park, Koshien Studium, for explanation to the British national broadcast :D :D
Even if they’re just kept as “green lungs”, that’s worth it.
Anyway, has there been a LIDAR analysis?
1:49 the coffin is 2x2m in the center. it wouldn't affect the garden island 😵.
its an excuse
There is? They have a 3D modelling of the landscape in the vid if I am not wrong.. but lidar can only be use on the outside surfaces.. we want to know the inside...
They seem to have a 3D model of whats beneath the trees but not sure what technique they used. LiDAR would be a challenge since it problems penetrating dense vegetation and there's a bloody lot of trees.
@@F20SW as far as I remember, they found old inka/Aztec or Maya buildings with lidar because the walls kept a different amount of moisture so the vegetation reflected in a different color than the surrounding. I meant on that level.
@@angelabby2379 they're sacred. That's why Japanese archaeologists love excavating Thracian mogilas.
この動画適当な事言ってるけど、古墳の材料は「田んぼ」や「畑」を開拓した時の「残土」です。
だから古墳が大きいほど食糧生産が増えたんです。だから大きな古墳の周りは土地が綺麗に平らなんです。
仁徳天皇の時代は食が豊かになったって記録されてます。
大勢の労働者を使役して豪華な墓建てただけなら食べ物が豊かになる訳がありません。
ただお墓を作る為に2000人で15年もかけるとかコストが見あってないよね。
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This is awesome!
Wow! Amazing 👏
Damn as rich, famous most advance in terms of technolgy japan this is the first time i hear about this.
I want to visit and learn so much more about Japan and people living there in general... I've always wanted to have Japanese friends even if it sounds silly ^^
Nice to leave some mysteries be untouched. Makes the world more interesting.
If there's an Alien civilization on Earth. It's definitely the Japanese people because they are so unique and mysterious.
More like Egyptians lol
@@spiritualshake4659 They are related to Egyptians so it make sense.
There has to be an anime on this
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It's amazing how Japan fiercely respects their tombs and chooses to coexist with them instead of going in to dig out whatever secrets lies within. 💪 BTW. This is my first time hearing about this sites despite having visited Osaka twice. 😶
Me too. Never heard of this before. I've also been to Osaka twice
legit same, and even stayed in sakai city.
Well yes, it's not like they had a coloniser who went around their country taking and digging wherever they please
wow japanese are very nationalistic man. its pretty clear that the moat and circular design was based on chinese legend of mount penglai/horai.
the chinese tomb also draws inspiration from these but they dont have moats at least to what i know.
the legend is somewhere outside china, there lies mythical island full of immortals. so yeah this inspired many design including japanese garden, pond which has a patch of land in the middle of the pond to symbolize mount penglai/horai
What make giggled is not only because it's look like giant key hole but also located in the middle of a city, usually when it comes to my mind about archeological sites is they all locateda bit far from modern civilization or in remote locations.
I'm ploud of borned at Sakai city .
Thanks this report .
so this was where uzi had hidden eternal atake all that time
空中要塞であることはバレていないようで安心した
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お前さぁ....
それだけは言ったらあかんって言われへんかったか？
愛国戦隊大日本最終回の秘密兵器ですね。
日本人「天孫降臨」宇宙人の祖先 これは母船であるｗ
宮内庁が立ち入り調査を許可しない理由がバレちゃったねぇ
I learnt about these from one of the kids I teach and it freaked me out that these huge tombs were so close to us and I didnt even
know
Why couldn't I know about this till now? It feels like reality has changed
Kingdom Hearts intensifies.
Sora forgot to unlock this world....
that's what i was thinking XD
@@BJ-zd2or That's explain so many darkness in people hearts.
I was today years old when I first heard about this
We have some of these in Okayama as well! You can even go biking by them on a special bike path. :)
the fact no one raid the tomb YET still a mysteries
横から見たらちっちゃい山
逆に考えると、近所のちっちゃい山もひょっとしたら古墳かもしれないんだよね
@@GO-ts1nu そんな所あるよ。うちのすぐ近所の山がそうで全然宅地開発されないんです。その回りの山はガンガン開発されてって昔と風景変わったけどこの山は今も変わらず緑に包まれてます。ある日周辺地図見る機会がありましてその山はなんちゃら古墳と記載されてました。“古墳かよ!!”大人になるまで全然知らなかったです。
つい最近、近所の丘の上の神社が古墳である事が発覚しました。
土地の形成において、山は山で集まるように、平地が形成される。
平地の中に存在する丘・山などは、人工物の可能性がある。
古墳ではなくても、昔の土木工事の残土で造られた山とか、よくある。
Does anyone here watch the Apple TV show called “See” the main characters are called Haniwa and Kofun I wonder what they have to do with Japanese tombs.
i knew those words sounded familiar! maybe pops was a weeb
"The tombs are sacred we shoudn't damage them"
A big big Slap to the egyptiands!!
First time seeing the keyhole
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