Object description

The Samuraizuka Kofun is a pair of "two conjoined rectangles" shaped kofun burial mounds located in the city of Ōtawara in Tochigi Prefecture in the northern Kantō region of Japan. Both received protection as a National Historic Site in 1951.The neighborhood has many smaller kofun, including one keyhole-shaped tumulus, seven dome-shaped tumuli and one square-shaped tumulus, which are covered under an Ōtawara City Historic Site designation.