fukiishi
Sign in to saveupright=1.3|thumb|alt=|The round end of Goshikizuka Kofun in Kobe covered with restored fukiishi '''''' ( or "roofing stone") were a means of covering burial chambers and burial mounds during the kofun period of Japan (). Stones collected from riverbeds were affixed to the slopes of raised kofun and other burial chambers. They are considered to have descended from forms used in Yayoi-period tumuli. They are common in the early and mid-Kofun periods, but most late Kofun-period tumuli do not have them.
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- architectural element
- Part of
- kofun
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- Goshikizuka kofun02s3200.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Origin and ancestry
- Terminology
- Research
- Materials and construction methods
- Stone Building Methods
- Type 1
- Type 2
- Class 3-1
- Class 3-2
- Class 3-3
- Class 4
- Purpose and function
- Demise
- Gallery
- Notes
- References
- Works cited
- External links
upright=1.3|thumb|alt=|The round end of Goshikizuka Kofun in Kobe covered with restored fukiishi ''' ( or "roofing stone") were a means of covering burial chambers and burial mounds during the kofun period of Japan (). Stones collected from riverbeds were affixed to the slopes of raised kofun and other burial chambers. They are considered to have descended from forms used in Yayoi-period tumuli. They are common in the early and mid-Kofun periods, but most late Kofun-period tumuli do not have them.
==Origin and ancestry==
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