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English: There was also a 13m wooden statue of a dog called "Biwa Ko", the face of which had an observation deck.
Japanese: また「びわ公」という高さ13mの犬の木像があり、顔部分は展望台もかねていた。
English: The park was visited by 700,000 people per year after it opened, but it closed on January 31, 2005.
Japanese: 開園当初は、年間70万人が訪れてにぎわったが、2005年1月31日に閉鎖した。
English: On September 20, 2008, the largest shopping mall in Shiga Prefecture, 'Pieri Moriyama', was opened on the former site of Biwako Wan Wan Kingdom.
Japanese: 2008年9月20日、わんわん王国跡地に県内最大規模の大型ショッピングモール「ピエリ守山」が開業した。
English: The mall is host to approximately 200 shops, including eateries, clothing shops, sundry goods stores and the like, and taking advantage of the site's location on the shore of Lake Biwa, the Biwa Kisen steamboat also stops here, giving visitors the chance to take a cruise on Lake Biwa.
Japanese: 飲食店、衣料品店、雑貨販売店など約200店舗が出店し、湖岸の立地を生かして琵琶湖汽船のクルーズ船も寄航する。
English: Kukuchi-jo (also known as Kikuchi-jo) Castle is one of the ancient mountaintop castles (Korean-type mountaintop castle).
Japanese: 鞠智城（くくちじょう、きくちじょう）は、古代山城（朝鮮式山城）の一つ。
English: It wa a castle different from the Kikuchi clan's 'Kikuchi-jo Castle' (Kikichi hon-jo [Kikuchi Main Castle]) in Waifu, in Kikuchi City.
Japanese: 菊池市隈府にあった菊池氏の居城「菊池城（菊池本城）」とは別の城である。
English: The name of the castle first appeared in the authentic history in the article of the renovation during the era of Emperor Monmu (in 698), however, the document has no description about the year when it was constructed and even now it remains unknown.
Japanese: 文武天皇時代の修築記事（698年）ではじめてその名が正史に登場するが、築城年は記載がなく現在も確定されていない。
English: However, because in the latter half of the seventh century the Japanese army was defeated by the Allied Forces of Tang Dynasty and Silla Kingdom in Hakusukinoe (Baekgang jeontu) in the Korean peninsula, the castle may have been built as a militant stronghold against their attacks.
Japanese: しかし、7世紀後半、倭軍が朝鮮半島の白村江で唐・新羅の連合軍に敗れて、その来寇に備える軍事拠点と位置づけられて築城されたものであろう。
English: From the description in the 'Rikkokushi' (the Six National Histories), the materials of the ancient history, and from the unearthed Paekche-type roof tiles and so on, Kikuchi-jo Castle is thought to have been constructed under the guidance of noblemen exiled from Paekche, therefore a bronze standing statue of Bosatsu (Bodhisattva) which is presumed to have been carried in by Paekche noblemen was excavated from the ruins.
Japanese: 古代史の資料「六国史」の記述や百済系瓦の出土例などから、鞠智城は百済亡命貴族の指導で築城されたと考えられており、遺跡からは百済貴族が持ち込んだと推定される青銅製の菩薩立像も出土している。
English: It is one of the six castles under the jurisdiction of Dazaifu and thought to have been a castle prepared for a contingency as an army assembly area of Ono-jo Castle (Chikuzen Province) and Kii-jo Castle.
Japanese: 太宰府管轄下にあった6城の1つで、大野城(筑前国)・基肄城の兵站基地として有事に備えた城と考えられている。
English: In 1959 it was designated as prefectural designated ruins as 'the site of the Castle according to tradition.'
Japanese: 昭和34年（1959年）に「（伝）鞠智城跡」として県指定遺跡に指定。
English: Since the start of excavation research in 1967, 72 building foundations including an octagonal building which was rare at that time (there are similar remains in Niseiyama-jo Castle in the South Korea) have been found.
Japanese: 昭和42年（1967年）より発掘調査が行われ、当時としては珍しい八角形建物（韓国の二聖山城跡に類似の遺構がある）をはじめ72棟の建物基礎が現在までに確認されている。
English: In 1997 rice warehouses in Azekura-zukuri (an architectural style in which the sides of the building are made by placing logs across each other) and barracks were restored to be opened to the public, as well as an octagonal drum tower was in 1999.
Japanese: 校倉造りの米倉や兵舎が平成9年（1997年）に、八角形鼓楼が平成11年（1999年）に復元され公開されている。
English: Because this huge granite with 3.6 meters in length, 2.1 meters in width, and 1.8 meters in height has a turtle-like carving on it, it is called by this name.
Japanese: 長さ3.6メートル、幅2.1メートル、高さ1.8メートルの巨大な花崗岩に亀に似た彫刻が彫られていることからこの名前で呼ばれている。
English: When and why it was made is a mystery; any theories, such as a marker of one of the four corners of the Kawahara-ji Temple's territory, a relic related to a kofun (tumulus) including Saruishi (Stone Monkey), or an unfinished product in the process of making a griffin statue in the era of Emperor Saimei, don't draw a conclusion.
Japanese: いつ、なんの目的で作られたかは謎で、川原寺の所領の四隅を示す石標、猿石を含めた古墳に関連する遺物、斉明天皇の時代にグリフィン像を造ろうとしたが加工途中で放棄されたものなど、いくつかの説がだされているが結論は出ていない。
English: Although it is called Kameishi, some people think it has a feature of a frog rather than a turtle because of the triangle shaped face and eyes protruding upward.
Japanese: 亀石と呼ばれているが、顔が三角形であることや目が上に飛び出しているなど、亀というよりはカエルの特徴をとらえていると見る人もいる。
English: Because the upper part remains a natural stone, while the lower part alone is processed, Nara National Cultural Properties Research Institute introduced in their report a theory suggesting a topsy-turvy state, i.e., the present bottom should have been intended for the top, which is not strongly supported.
Japanese: 上部が自然石のままで下部のみが加工されていることから、現在の下面が本来の上面で実は上下逆であったという説も奈良国立文化財研究所の報告書で出されてはいるが、有力視はされていない。
English: It is unknown that traces of stone arrows seen in the lower part were made in its earliest days, or in later years when the rock was tried to be broken.
Japanese: 下部には石矢の跡が見られるが、建造当初からあったものなのか酒船石遺跡のように後世になって石を割ろうとした跡なのかも分かっていない。
English: If they are traces made at the beginning, it proves that Kameishi is an unfinished product, or if it was broken in later years, the original stone might be much taller than the present one.
Japanese: もし当初から残された跡だとすれば亀石は未完成品であるとの証拠にもなり、後世に割られたとしたら本来は現在よりもかなり高さのある石だった可能性がある。
English: Legend says that when the area around Nara Basin was a lake, in a battle between the snakes in Taima on the opposite shore and the catfish in Kawahara, sucked the water by Taima caused Kawahara area to be dried up and all the turtle in the lake to be killed.
Japanese: 言い伝えによれば、奈良盆地一帯が湖であった頃、対岸の当麻（たいま）のヘビと川原のナマズの争いの結果、当麻に水を吸い取られ、川原あたりは干上がってしまい、湖の亀はみんな死んでしまった。
English: Now it faces southeast, and legend says that if it faces west and stares at Taima, Nara Basin would be a sea of mud.
Japanese: そして、今は南西を向いているが、西に向き、当麻のほうを睨みつけると、奈良盆地は一円泥の海と化す、と伝えられている。
English: The Oni no Manaita (Devil's Chopping Board) and Oni no Setchin (Devil's Toilet) are remains made of granite located in Noguchi (Oni no Manaita), and in Hirata (Oni-no Setchin) of Asuka Village, Takaichi County, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 鬼の俎（おにのまないた）と鬼の雪隠（おにのせっちん）は、奈良県高市郡明日香村野口（鬼の俎）、明日香村平田（鬼の雪隠）にある花崗岩で作られた遺構。
English: Oni no Manaita' is located in the hill beside an alameda passing through the field, and 'Oni no Setchin' at the foot of the hill across the alameda.
Japanese: 畑の中を通る遊歩道の脇の高台には「鬼の俎」が、遊歩道を挟んだ高台の麓に「鬼の雪隠」がある。
English: Both of them are tens of meters away in a straight line from each other, but they were originally a stone chamber of one kofun (tumulus) which got separated because of loss of the mound.
Japanese: 両者は直線距離にして数十メートル離れているが、元は1つの古墳の石室だったものが、盛土が無くなったうえ、二つに分かれてしまったものである。
English: Originally it was a stone chamber (Oni no Setchin) of a hollowed-out Yokoguchi-shiki Sekkaku (Stone Sarchophagus with Side Entrance) and its bottom stone (Oni no Manaita).
Japanese: 元々は繰り抜かれた横口式石槨の石室（鬼の雪隠）とその底石（鬼の俎）であった。
English: Legend says that an ogre who lived in this region called the forest of the wind cheated passers-by and ate them.
Japanese: 言い伝えによると、風の森と呼ばれるこの地方に鬼が棲んでおり、通行人を騙してとらえ食べたと云われている。
English: There are a lot of holes on the bottom stone (Manaita), which is evidence of people trying to break it into pieces and taking them away.
Japanese: 底石（俎）には多数の穴が開けられており、割り取ろうとした形跡がみられる。
English: This is because people wanted to use them as material for stone walls for the construction of Takatori-jo Castle.
Japanese: これは高取城建設の際に、石垣の石材として利用しようとしたためとみられる。
English: In fact there was another Manaita in the west of the present Manaita, but they say that it was broken into small pieces for the use of garden stones in the Meiji period.
Japanese: 実は現在の俎の西にもう一つ別の俎があり、明治の頃に小さく割られ庭石に転用されたという。
English: That is to say, Oni no Manaita and Setchin-kofun Tumulus is a twin tomb and the present Setchin is a sekkaku combined with another Manaita which once was on the west side.
Japanese: すなわち鬼の俎・雪隠古墳は双墓であり、現在の雪隠は西側にあったもう一つの俎と組み合わされた石槨だというのである。
English: From ancient times, drum towers (ko-ro towers) were built inside castles, cities and the sites of religious institutions in the People's Republic of China and areas influenced by the Chinese culture.
Japanese: 鼓楼（ころう）は、古来中華人民共和国及び、その文化影響圏の城内・都市内・宗教施設敷地内に建てられる。
English: As can be seen in the bell and drum towers in Beijing (Beijing Gulou and Zhonglou), some have a bell tower in the north and a drum tower in the south while others have bell and drum towers in a single building like in Shanhaiguan shodrum tower.
Japanese: 北京鐘鼓楼（zh北京鼓樓和鐘樓、enBeijingGulouandZhonglou）のように北に鐘楼・南に鼓楼を配置したものや、山海関鐘鼓楼のように一体の楼閣である場合もある。
English: The Drum Tower in Nanjing Castle is located in the center of Gulou district, Nanjing City.
Japanese: 南京城の鼓楼（ころう）は南京市鼓楼区(南京市)の中心に位置している。
English: It was built in 1382 during the Ming Dynasty and used for signalling the times of day and night and for welcoming kings.
Japanese: 明の洪武15年（1382年）に建てられ、昼夜の時報や王を迎えるときに使われた。
English: Now the area is a park, and the Drum Tower (Gulou) Park and the site adjacent to the park is Drum Tower Square; a public square.
Japanese: 現在は鼓楼公園として整備され、公園に隣接する区域は鼓楼広場となっている。
English: The park is open from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (as of 2004) and is free to enter, but a fee (five yuan as of 2004) is charged to climb the drum tower.
Japanese: 公園は800-1730（2004年現在）まで開園され、入場は無料であるが、鼓楼の登閣は有料（5元（2004年現在）である。
English: Also in Japan, drum towers referred to as taiko-ro tower can be seen inside religious institutions such as temples and shrines.
Japanese: 日本でも、太鼓楼として寺院や神社などの宗教施設敷地内に見ることができる。
English: The buildings are multi-storied, and in order for the sound to go outwards their openings are wide or sometimes they have an open structure with only columns and rails.
Japanese: 建物は多層建築として、外部に音が出るように開口部を大きくするか、柱と欄干のみの開放的な造りにすることがある。
English: The taiko yagura was a building which had the same role as a drum tower in a temple and which normally announced the time of gate openings at sunrise and sunset.
Japanese: 太鼓櫓（たいこやぐら）は寺院の鼓楼と同じ役割を持つ建物で、常時は日の出と日暮れの開門の時刻を知らせた。
English: Many taiko yagura are multi-storied, and a one-storey turret such as the one in Himeji-jo Castle is rare.
Japanese: 多重の楼閣建築であることが多く、姫路城のように平櫓であることは少ない。
English: The first storey was made in the same way as a normal turret and the second storey had large windows and a hanging drum.
Japanese: 1重目を通常の櫓と同じように造り、2重目は窓を大きくし、太鼓が吊るしてあった。
English: Taiko yagura are sometimes made decoratively; using kato-mado windows (pointed arch or bell-shaped windows) or surrounded with parapets.
Japanese: 装飾的に造ることがあり、開口に華頭窓を用いたり、欄干を廻られせたものもある。
English: Examples of existing taiko yagura include those in Himeji-jo Castle (one-storey turret) and Kakegawa-jo Castle as well as in Hiroshima-jo Castle, which was restored.
Japanese: 現在、現存する太鼓櫓としては、姫路城（平櫓のもの）のものと、掛川城のもの、復元されたものでは広島城のものなどがある。
English: Kurozuka-kofun (also known as Kurozuka-kofun) Tumulus is an early keyhole-shaped mound (about the end of third century) in Yanagimoto-cho, Tenri City, Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 黒塚古墳（くろつかこふん、くろづかこふん）は、奈良県天理市柳本町にある前期（3世紀末頃）前方後円墳。
English: From 1997 to the next year the Kashihara Archaeological Institute, Nara Prefecture conducted the third excavation research and discovered 33 Sankaku Shinju-kyo Mirrors and one Gamontai Shinju-kyo Mirror (Mirror with figures of deities and sacred animals) in almost the same state when they were buried.
Japanese: 1997年（平成9年）から翌年にかけて奈良県立橿原考古学研究所が行った第3次発掘調査で、三角縁神獣鏡33面と画文帯神獣鏡1面が、副葬当時に近い状態で発見された。
English: In the coffin the Gabuntai Shinju-kyo Mirror was placed near the head of the deceased person and one katana (one-edged sword) and one tsurugi (two-edged sword) on either side of it, and in the outside of the coffin 15 Sankaku Shinju-kyo Mirrors on the east wall and 17 on the west wall, which faced inward, were placed in the small space between the coffin and the wall.
Japanese: 棺内には被葬者の頭のところに画文帯神獣鏡と両側に刀1・剣1をおき、棺外に東壁側15面、西壁側17面の三角縁神獣鏡を内側に向けて木棺と壁のわずかな間に立てられていた。
English: Swords, tetsuzoku (iron arrowheads), and kozane (small piece of iron or leather for armor) and unspecified iron goods were arranged.
Japanese: 刀剣類や鉄鏃・小札（こざね）・用途不明の鉄製品などを配置してあった。
English: The burial facilities of the back circular part is a pit stone chamber with its inside measurement approximately 8.3 meters in length, north small entrance 0.9 meters in width and about 1.7 meters in height, and the ceiling was built in a Gassho-zukuri style (an architect method with wooden beams combined to form a steep thatched roof that resembles two hands together) and corbelled out with flagstones from Mt. Kasuga and Mt. Shiba at the foot of Mt. Nijo.
Japanese: 後円部の埋葬施設は竪穴式石室で、内法長約8.3メートル、北小口幅0.9メートル、高さ約1.7メートルで、二上山麓の春日山と芝山の板石を持ち送りに積んで合掌造状の天井を作り出している。
English: In the stone chamber a hollowed-out wooden coffin whose semi-circular cross section is more than 1 meter in full length was placed on the clay floor.
Japanese: 石室内では、粘土棺床が設けられ、断面半円形の全長1メートル以上の刳抜式木棺が納められている。
English: It seems that the center of the wooden coffin only in the 2.8 meters range was painted with cinnabar and the both ends were painted in red colcothar
Japanese: 木棺には中央部の長さ2.8メートルの範囲のみ水銀朱を施し、両端はベンガラの赤色で塗られていた模様である。
English: Moreover, this pit stone chamber points to almost true north, from which we can guess that the head of the deceased pointed to true north.
Japanese: なおこの縦穴石室は、ほぼ真北を向いており、被葬者の頭も真北に向けられていたことは推定できる。
English: This true north does not mean a simple coincidence, because it is thought that in the Yamato Dynasty there was probably a custom of burying the deceased with his or her head pointing to true north.
Japanese: この真北は単なる偶然ではなく、ヤマト王権の中に被葬者の頭を真北に向けて埋葬する風習があったらしいと考えられている。
English: Tenri City not only manages the maintenance of this tumulus, now named Yanagimoto Park but also has set up, next to the tumulus, 'Tenri Municipal Kurozuka-kofun Museum' to exhibit a full-size model of a pit stone chamber.
Japanese: 古墳は天理市によって整備が行われ、柳本公園となっているほか、古墳に隣接して竪穴式石室の実物大模型などを展示する「天理市立黒塚古墳展示館」が設けられている。
English: Yanagimoto-jo Castle was built on the tumulus in the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States), and Oda family built Yanagimoto Jinya (regional government office of the Yanagimoto Domain) in the site of the castle to be the government building of the Yanagimoto Domain in the Edo period.
Japanese: 戦国時代(日本)には古墳に柳本城を築城、江戸時代織田家が城跡に柳本陣屋を構築し柳本藩藩庁とした。
English: The Omi Shinkanji-kofun Tumulus is a large keyhole-shaped mound located in Omi-kofun Tumuli Cluster in Gyoda City, Saitama Prefecture.
Japanese: 小見真観寺古墳（おみしんかんじこふん）は、埼玉県行田市の小見古墳群内にある前方後円墳である。
English: The mound of the tomb is 112 meters in length, a keyhole-shaped mound ranking the fourth in size in Saitama Prefecture and commonly called 'Kannon Dake' (Mt. Goddess of Mercy).
Japanese: 墳丘長は112メートルであり、埼玉県第4位の規模を有する前方後円墳で、俗に「観音嶽」と称する。
English: The main axis points west northwest, and although the left-side mound and the tops of front and back are flattened, the right-side remainders are in good condition.
Japanese: 主軸は西北西に向かい、封土の左側および前後の頂部はともに削平を受けているが右側の遺存状況は良好である。
English: The back circular part is 55 meters in diameter and 7.8 meters in height, and the front square part 48 meters in width and 7 meters in height.
Japanese: 後円部の径は55メートル、高さ7.8メートル、前方部の幅は48メートル、高さは7メートルである。
English: The mound has two corridor-style stone chambers built by fitting together some chrolite schist monoliths near the back circular part and the hollow part.
Japanese: 埋葬施設は後円部と鞍部付近に緑泥片岩の一枚岩を組み合わせた二ヶ所の横穴式石室がある。
English: In 1634 the stone chamber of the back circular part was discovered and it had a front room and a back room and was built in the early seventh century.
Japanese: 後円部の石室は1634年に発見され、前室・後室の構造で7世紀の初めの築造。
English: Excavation investigation in 1880 found some artifacts such as armors, swords, copper bowls, earthen vessels, which are now stored and exhibited in Tokyo National Museum.
Japanese: 1880年（明治13年）、発掘調査がなされ、甲冑、刀剣、銅鋺、土器などの出土品は東京国立博物館に収蔵・展示されている。
English: From the chronology of grave goods, there is a possibility that the stone chamber was built a little later in the middle of the seventh century.
Japanese: 副葬品の編年から、鞍部石室の築造はやや遅れて7世紀の中頃の可能性がある。
English: It is new tumulus for a keyhole-shaped mound and is thought to be a headperson-class tomb equal to Sakitama-kofun Tumuli Cluster.
Japanese: 前方後円墳としては新しい時期のものであり、さきたま古墳群に匹敵する首長墓と考えられている。
English: Makimuku Remains ("纒向遺跡" or "纏向遺跡") is a series of remains located at the north-west foot of Mt. Miwa ("三輪山."also called Mt. Mimoro, "御諸山" or Mt. Mimuro "三室山") in Sakurai-City, Nara Prefecture, which existed during the period of the last stage of the Yayoi period to the early Tumulus period of ancient Japan.
Japanese: 纒向遺跡または纏向遺跡（まきむくいせき）は、奈良県桜井市、御諸山（みもろやま）とも三室山（みむろやま）とも呼ばれる三輪山の北西麓一帯に広がる弥生時代末期〜古墳時代前期の遺跡群を指す。
English: The name of these remains is derived from the village name of Makimuku Village located in the former Shiki District, which was named after the Makimuku Tamakinomiya Imperial Palace of Emperor Suinin and the Makimuku Hishironomiya Imperial Palace of Emperor Keiko, both located in this area.
Japanese: 遺跡名は旧磯城郡纏向村の村名であり、その村名は垂仁天皇纏向珠城（たまき）宮、景行天皇纏向日代（ひしろ）宮の纏向に由来する。
English: The known area of these remains (as of the year 2000 and later) is about 3 square kilometers, which extends to the north up to Karasuda River, to the south up to Gomibara River, to the east up to Makinouchi Area close to Yamanobeno-michi Street, to the west up to Higashida Area.
Japanese: 現在（2000年代）の把握されている纒向遺跡の範囲は北は烏田川、南は五味原川、東は山辺の道に接する巻野内地区、西は東田地区およびその範囲は約3km2になる。
English: On the detailed map of the remains produced from the investigation, the expanse of the area is 2 kilometers long in east-west orientation and 1.5 kilometers long in south-north orientation forming an ellipse shape, with an area up to 3,000 square meters spreading around the location of today's JR Makumuku Station as its center.
Japanese: 遺跡地図上では遺跡範囲はJR巻向駅を中心に東西約2キロメートル・南北約1.5キロメートルに及び、その形は楕円形であり、面積は3000m2にまで達する。
English: Mountain streams from Mt. Miwa, Mt. Makimuko, Mt. Anashi, and other mountains converge to join the Makimukai River, forming an alluvial fan where the remains are located.
Japanese: 三輪山・巻向山・穴師山などの流れが纏向川に合流し、その扇状地上に遺跡が形成されている。
English: In addition to the crude earthenware pieces and Sanukite pieces (musical instrument), other products, such as stone curved sticks, earthen figure sculptures, deep pot pieces, were excavated throughout the area of the remains, which suggests the existence of a village at this location during the Jomon period.
Japanese: 粗製土器片やサヌカイト片に混じって砂岩製の石棒破片が土偶や深鉢などがこの遺跡のあちこちから出土していて、縄文時代の集落が営まれていたと考えられている。
English: However, any evidence of a village nor a village with a moat constructed around the territory from the Yayoi period has not been found throughout the remains.
Japanese: この遺跡からは弥生時代の集落が発見されておらず、環濠集落も検出されていない。
English: However, many pieces of earthenware produced during the mid to the late Yayoi period have been found at the location slightly south to the Makimuku Remains, and other remains, such as tombs surrounded by a square moat and pit-houses, were excavated.
Japanese: この遺跡より南に少し離れた地より弥生中期・後期の多量の土器片が発見されており、方形周濠墓や竪穴住居なども出土している。
English: Makimuku Remains represent the beginning of the Tumulus period in Japan, and they became the center of the attention to prove the theory that Yamataikoku was founded in Kidai region (Kinki region).
Japanese: 纒向遺跡は、古墳時代の始まりを告げる遺跡であり、今日、邪馬台国畿内説を立証する遺跡ではないかとして注目を浴びている。
English: Many set of ritual instruments used for honoring Mt. Miwa were found from the remains of large-scale agricultural channels, along with a countless number of holes on the ground.
Japanese: 農業用の大型水路や無数の土抗の中に三輪山祭祀に関する遺物のセットが多数投げ捨てられていた。
English: Some relics, including Kibi style Komonenban (arc patterned disc) produced for ritual usage, were found from the surrounding moat of Ishizuka Tumulus.
Japanese: 石塚古墳周濠から吉備系の祭祀遺物弧文円板（こもんえんばん）が出土している。
English: Until the recent extensive archelogic excavation, these remains were known as Ota Remains or Katsuyama Remains, a small-scale, insignificant remains without getting much attention among the members of Japanese archeological societies.
Japanese: 現在の名称で呼ばれるまでは太田遺跡・勝山遺跡として学会に知られており、小規模な遺跡群の1つとして研究者には認識され特に注目を集めていなかった。
English: However, the atmosphere of the archeological community changed after the operation of a preliminary excavation research by Archelological Institute of Kashihara prior to the construction of a municipal housing and an elementary school at the site; the remains got the attention of archeological communities after the discovery of the canal style constructions in 5m width, 1m depth and the total length of 200m and more.
Japanese: しかし1971年に行われた県営住宅、小学校建設の為の橿原考古学研究所が行った事前調査により幅5m、深さ1メートル、総延長200メートル以上の運河状の構造物が発見された事により注目を集めることになる。
English: After the 15th excavation carried out in 1977, the primary body of the researches was handed over from the Archeological Institute of Kashihara to the Sakurai City Board of Education to succeed and continue the researches, and excavations still continue today.
Japanese: 1977年の第15次調査以降、調査主体が橿原考古学研究所から桜井市教育委員会へと移り現在も調査を継続している。
English: In 2009, some new remains of the buildings were found, which would be evidences of Makimuku Remains as a developed, civilized urban community surrounded and protected by fences and fortifications.
Japanese: 2009年にはいくつかの建物も発掘され、纒向遺跡は柵や砦で囲まれた都市の一部らしいことが明らかになってきた。
English: Makimuku Remains are enormous and 10 times as large as the Karako/Kagi Remains, are comparable to the scale of Fujiwara Palace, and larger than the Taga Castle Remains.
Japanese: 唐古・鍵遺跡の約10倍の規模を持ち、藤原宮に匹敵する巨大な遺跡で多賀城跡よりも大規模である。
English: An enormous water channel was discovered, which measures 5m in width, 1m in depth and 200m in total length, with wooden sheet piles protecting its banks.
Japanese: 矢板で護岸した幅5メートル、深さ1メートル、総延長200メートル以上にわたる巨大水路の発見。
English: As many as 150 stake marks of irregular circles protruding into one direction were found on the ground, each of which measures 3m in diameter and 1.5m in depth.
Japanese: 径約3メートル・深さ約1.5メートルの一方が突出する不整形な円の土抗が約150基発見された。
English: (Those remains excavated in this area are considered to be produced in the first half of the early Tumulus period, constructed in about 23 square meters in 3.6 meters x 5.45 meters dimention, and also some other accompanying remains have been excavated including; an archeological feature representing a sign of a collapsed building, along with a wooden artifact in black lacquer with arc patterns; a small building measuring 1.8 meters x 1.8 meters; another 3.6 meters x 3.6 meters all-pillared building along with black lacquered, arc patterned wooden relics; it may be inferred from these artifacts that buildings of a major palace existed at this location.)
Japanese: （古墳時代前期前半の2×3間で床面積約23平方メートルの建物、家屋倒壊遺構と黒漆塗りの弧文を持つ木製品、1×1間の小家屋と2×2間の総柱建物と弧文黒漆塗木製品、纏向玉城宮跡の石碑、宮殿居館の存在が疑われる。)
English: The remains of a ritual place (from the location of Makimuku Hishiro Imperial Palace of Emperor Keiko described by the Imperial tradition, some artifacts have been discovered, such as a jasper Magatama, stone Kushiro, jasper Kudatama (for threaded necklace), glass beads, and the earthenware from the late 4th century.
Japanese: 祭祀遺跡（穴師ドヨド地区の景行天皇纏向日代宮の伝承地から碧玉製勾玉・石釧・管玉・ガラス小玉、4世紀後半の土器など出土）
English: Some wooden haniwa originally came from the Kibi region have been discovered, which is called Komon Enban (arc patterned disc) from their patterns created by the combination of linear and curved lines.
Japanese: 吉備地方にルーツを持つとされる直線と曲線を組合わせて文様を施した弧文円板（こもねんばん）と呼ばれる木の埴輪。
English: (In 2001, according to the analysis of the soil components of the earthenware, there is no similar instance among the earthenware produced in Japan, therefore the excavated earthenware pieces were identified that they had been produced with the techniques and methods invented in the Korean Peninsula.)
Japanese: (胎土成分組成の分析により、2001年に国内で類例のない事が確認され、朝鮮半島内の技術で作られたものと判明した）
English: While many artifacts produced in various regions of ancient Japan have been excavated in Makimuku remains, the products brought from Tokai region have the largest volume among of all those artifacts.
Japanese: 日本全国で作られたと見なされる遺物が出土しているが、中でも東海地方の物が多い。
English: Although Makimuku Remains are considered to have been a large-scale community, the sign of the village has not been discovered yet.
Japanese: 纒向遺跡は大集落と言われながらも、人の住む集落跡が発見されていない。