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This page aims to supply supplemntary articles about what I feel I need to explain or describe more concerning the original items. They are divided into three groups as below.
Additional Descriptions
My Approach to this website
My Purpose and Effect I Aim At
This site pursues a major goal of inviting more people from both home and abroad to Iwase-senzuka by providing information with the potential visitors.
Contents
Articles I write here are totally based on what I have learned in books and others until now. So, the readers need to understand that I may mention something wrong unintentionally from my poor undertsanding. I am not a specialist on history or archelogy at all. I recommend readers to carefully check historical facts by reading reliable publications.
In addition, in this website, I refrain from writing everything I usually talk about with visitors at the historic site and the museum, because writing here should not be a spoiler for them. I hope my articles here will lead readers to become more interested in ancient history of Wakayama and Japan.
Good Results I Can Obtain
Effects I am aiming at are as follows.
- More people will be aware of the wonderful historic site and will come there.
- I can integrate what I have learned into the artcles here in both English and Japanese. And I hope the combination will result in better guiding of mine at Iwase-senzuka.
- I can improve my skiil on writing articles in both English and Japanese. It is still difficult to make myself understood properly as I wish in both languages. My learning will never end.
- I can also refine my techniques for the Internet icluding HTML and CSS.
Consequelty, I think running this website would be beneficial for tourists, the faciltiy and of course, me.
Reasons why I express my opinions about the past.
Ancient history has been popular among Japanese people for many years. And there must be a great many enthusiasts for stories of long time ago in the world.
It must be partly because it is fun even for common people including me to deduce what really happened in the past with archeological facts.
At the same time, it must be also becasue we feel learning history helps us think about what will happen in the future, as is often said.
Glossary
In this glossary, hintorical terms concerning Iwase-senzuka are explained based on my understanding. Other words which may be unfamiliar to someone are included here. They are arranged in alphabetical order according to its notation in Japanese romaji (the Roman alphabet).
- Oto-ura Site (音浦遺跡)
- This arecheological site is located in just west of Hanayama. I hear that pillar holes for pit dwellings and dug-standing pillar buildings in the Kofun Period were unearthend there.
- Hanayama (花山)
- It is a name of a hill over 77 meters above sea level in Wakayama City. It is located at the most north-western part of the Iwase-senzuka. The Special Historic Sites area, howerver, does not include Hanayama.
- Hanayama in Japanese means "flower hill." In the past, the hill was called "Hani-yama," which was from "haniwa hill."
- The hill of Hanayama faces Oto-ura Site in the west.
- ryobo (陵墓)
- "Ryo," which is usually pronounced "misasagi" as a single word, means "mausoleums for emperors, empresses, emperors' grandmothers, the preceding empresses," and "bo," which is pronounced "haka" as a single word, means "tombs for other imperial family members."
- The Imperial Household Agency of the Japanese national government controls the ryobo, and almost always prohibits common people including archeologists from entering the premises.
- As a result, archeological research has not been conducted as properly as scientists hope for and researchers seem to have no option but to study ryobo based on limited circumstantial evidences.
- Controversy over some of the kofun tomb owners have continued even among Japanese archeologists.
History of Revision
The page name, "the article name" (the date) is the description order in this section.
- My Views, "Periodization of the Jomon Period" and "My Fundamental understanding of the Jomon Period" (April 30, 2024)
- My Views, "My Summary" about large-sized kofun (April 29, 2024)
- Supplements, "ryobo, or imeprial mausolea" in the artcle of Glossary (April 28, 2024)
- My Views, addinal informatiion about "emperors's mausola" in the artcle of large-sized kofun (April 27, 2024)
- My Views, "Large-sized Kofun in the 5th and 6th centuries" (April 26, 2024)
- My Views, "Large-sized Kofun in the 4th century" (April 24, 2024)
- My Views, "Large-sized Kofun in the 3rd century" (April 23, 2024)
- My Views, "Goguryeo" (April 22, 2024)
- My Views, "Silla" (April 20, 2024)
- My Views, "Baekje" (April 19, 2024)
- My Views, "Gaya Countries"（April 18, 2024)