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[[File:Hashihaka-model.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A model of [[Hashihaka kofun]], one of the earliest examples of the keyhole-shaped tomb mound, showing both the tree-covered appearance, and the underlying manmade structure. [[National Museum of Japanese History]].]]
*''Japanese'': 古墳時代 ''(kofun jidai)''
The Kofun period extends from roughly 250 CE to roughly 550 CE, and is marked by the prevalence of large tomb-mounds or tumuli, called ''[[kofun]]'' in Japanese, in which royalty and other elites were buried. The Kofun period and the [[Asuka period]] ([[538]]-[[710]]) which follow it together comprise the [[Yamato period]], the period of time in which a centralized polity, the [[Yamato state]], first formed, developed, strengthened, and grew into the proto-Japanese state.
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]])
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<center>
{| border="3" align="center"
|- align="center"
|width="35%"|Previous Period<br>'''[[Yayoi Period]]'''
|width="25%"|'''Kofun Period'''
|width="35%"|Following Period<br>'''[[Asuka Period]]'''
|}
</center>
==References==
*Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, and Suzanne Gay, ''A Brief History of Japanese Civilization'', Wadsworth Cengage (2013), 11-15.
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[[Category:Historical Periods]]
[[Category:Kofun Period]]
*''Japanese'': 古墳時代 ''(kofun jidai)''
The Kofun period extends from roughly 250 CE to roughly 550 CE, and is marked by the prevalence of large tomb-mounds or tumuli, called ''[[kofun]]'' in Japanese, in which royalty and other elites were buried. The Kofun period and the [[Asuka period]] ([[538]]-[[710]]) which follow it together comprise the [[Yamato period]], the period of time in which a centralized polity, the [[Yamato state]], first formed, developed, strengthened, and grew into the proto-Japanese state.
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]])
{{stub}}
<center>
{| border="3" align="center"
|- align="center"
|width="35%"|Previous Period<br>'''[[Yayoi Period]]'''
|width="25%"|'''Kofun Period'''
|width="35%"|Following Period<br>'''[[Asuka Period]]'''
|}
</center>
==References==
*Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, and Suzanne Gay, ''A Brief History of Japanese Civilization'', Wadsworth Cengage (2013), 11-15.
<references/>
[[Category:Historical Periods]]
[[Category:Kofun Period]]
