Posted on 02/02/2023 5:31:20 PM PST by BenLurkin
Japanese researchers discovered a large dakō iron sword and a giant bronze mirror in a 4th-century burial mound in the city of Nara.
The two items were found last November in the Tomio Maruyama Tumulus.
According to the local government groups, the 125-pound, shield-shaped decorated mirror was the first of its kind to be discovered, and the seven-foot iron serpentine dakō sword is the largest and oldest from the Kofun period (300 CE–710 CE) to be found. Experts say this allows the two items from the Tomio Maruyama Tumulus to be classified as national treasures.
The shield-shaped mirror is two feet long and one foot wide, and features geometric designs and patterns similar to daryu mirrors, which are based on imaginary characters. An X-ray taken of the mirror detected tin, copper, and lead.
The sword has a wavy, snake-like shape and markings that denote a sheath and handle. According to the Japan Times, more than 80 other dakō swords have been found throughout Japan so far.
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Samurai Excalibur?
Descendants of Nephilims obviously
Live by the sword, die by the sword...or right next to the sword, or across from the sword...
Revised TV ad: ....and you can quickly make perfect slices of cucumbers, zucchini, carrots or other vegetables and if you order in the next ten minutes we will throw in this colorful cookbook and a set of matching steak knives.
Amazing it wasn’t reduced to a pile of rust after all this time.
There can be only one.
In a few hundred years are they going to dig up all the dead people in our cemeteries?
Descendants of Nephilims obviously
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Good to see some here are Biblically educated. Next question, where are the remains? Today’s attacks on Christianity would lead me to assume the six fingered/ toed remains are not being reported simply because it would be validation of the Bible.
Big Man Japan!
“In a few hundred years are they going to dig up all the dead people in our cemeteries?”
Perhaps. But they’ll excavate a KFC location and conclude we had chickens with 6 breasts, 8 legs and 12 wings.
There were giants in those days and after
Depends. Was the Smithsonian Institution there? They snatch them and are hidden
Ha! True.
Too early for Samurai. That far back it probably would have been a 2-edged, straight, Chinese design. The single-edged curved sword didn’t show up until about 700 AD. It was almost another 900 years before that evolved into the iconic katana of the Samurai.
More likely will be the remnants of “The Hillary Special”: two fat thighs, small breasts, and one left wing.
It makes no difference, really.
[snip] The Yamato Period, commonly broken into two separate eras: the Kofun ("tumulus") Era, from 250 to 538, and the Asuka Era, from 538 to 710, saw the emergence of a central governing power in the west of Japan, centered around the Yamato Province (highlighted in yellow on the map). It was in this location that a local clan (also known as Yamato) began to consolidate its power and establish its claim as the imperial bloodline of the nation. [/snip]Yamato Period (250 – 710) [University of Pittsburgh]
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