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The largest ''kofun'' are found in the [[Kinai]] region (in and around [[Nara]], [[Kyoto]], and [[Osaka]]), but roughly 150,000 tomb-mounds of various sizes are strewn throughout most of the main three islands of the archipelago (excluding [[Hokkaido|Hokkaidô]] and the [[Ryukyu Islands|Ryûkyû Islands]])
The largest ''kofun'' are found in the [[Kinai]] region (in and around [[Nara]], [[Kyoto]], and [[Osaka]]), but roughly 150,000 tomb-mounds of various sizes are strewn throughout most of the main three islands of the archipelago (excluding [[Hokkaido|Hokkaidô]] and the [[Ryukyu Islands|Ryûkyû Islands]])
[[Bronze mirrors]], symbols of wealth, power, and prestige held by local and regional elites, though largely imported in the Yayoi period, now began to be more widely produced within Japan.<ref>Gallery labels, "Mirrors," Japan Gallery, British Museum.</ref>
Though the end of the political and cultural circumstances of the Kofun Period, and the termination of the construction of ''kofun'', cannot be pegged to a specific date or event, historians often cite the introduction of [[Buddhism]] in or around [[538]] as marking the end of the Kofun Period and the beginning of the Asuka Period, a period when the adoption of numerous [[Tang Dynasty]] political, legal, and cultural elements set the foundation for the heavily Chinese-influenced classical/traditional "Japanese" culture and state that would continue to develop over many centuries, down to today.
Though the end of the political and cultural circumstances of the Kofun Period, and the termination of the construction of ''kofun'', cannot be pegged to a specific date or event, historians often cite the introduction of [[Buddhism]] in or around [[538]] as marking the end of the Kofun Period and the beginning of the Asuka Period, a period when the adoption of numerous [[Tang Dynasty]] political, legal, and cultural elements set the foundation for the heavily Chinese-influenced classical/traditional "Japanese" culture and state that would continue to develop over many centuries, down to today.