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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]])
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.
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