CHINOOKA TUMULUS
Location
Ishizu-cho 2, Sakai City

It is a keyhole-shaped burial mound in the most southwestern part of the Mozu tumuli Group, and its rectangular part faces the south. Though most of its rectangular part had been destroyed and became a housing area. The burial mound used to be a 155-meter-long large keyhole-shaped burial mound, the sixth largest one among the Mozu Tumuli Group. The most intact round part of the mound is 94 meters long and 14 meters high, consisting of 3 stages. The burial mound has stones and clay figures, surrounded by a moat. The moat has already been reclaimed to build housing and factories, but in the excavation conducted in 1985, It was proved that the west side of the round part ofthe burial mound was about 30 meters wide, showing how vast the scale was.