Mimizuka
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The , which was renamed from , is a monument in Kyoto, Japan. It is dedicated to the sliced noses of killed Korean soldiers and civilians, as well as those of Ming Chinese troops, taken as war trophies during the Imjin War. The monument enshrines the severed noses of at least 38,000 Koreans and over 30,000 Chinese killed during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasions.
Key facts
- Monument.name
- Mimizuka
- Monument.image
- Ear mound side.jpg
- Monument.type
- Nose tomb
- Monument.dedicated_to
- The sliced noses of 38,000 Korean people and 30,000 Chinese people
- Monument.caption
- Mimizuka from the side (2023)
- Monument.location
- 533-1 Chayacho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan
- Monument.mapframe zoom
- 16
- Monument.website
- (in Japanese)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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The , which was renamed from , is a monument in Kyoto, Japan. It is dedicated to the sliced noses of killed Korean soldiers and civilians, as well as those of Ming Chinese troops, taken as war trophies during the Imjin War. The monument enshrines the severed noses of at least 38,000 Koreans and over 30,000 Chinese killed during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasions.
The shrine is located just to the west of Toyokuni Shrine, the Shinto shrine honoring Hideyoshi in Kyoto.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mimizuka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
2 mapped locations