In the ancient time of Japan, from the mid 3rd century to the end of 7th century, there was a time called Kofun Era, which means the era of old graves.
During this era, people at the time built a lot of large size graves. Most of them are for Emperors or the related families of Emperors. Nobody could tell why they built such a lot of large graves only though that era, but it’s sure that people who built them wanted to show how Emperors were great to Japanese nation.
These graves have the same shape all throuht the era, and it’s called Square Front - Circle Back type grave ( see photo ). When we learn it at schools, the picture of this grave is always shown upside down like this photo, so it looks like Circle Front – Back Square shape. I don’t know why the editor of texbooks of high schools showed the photo upside down like this.
The grave in this picture is really large. The length of the grave is about 486 meters, which is the largest size in the world. Not only this photo, but there are many same type graves in Japan. They were all built in this era of old graves.
Also it’s known that the builders of this grave ( photo ) were people of Hata Clan.About the Hata Clan, I already wrote about them in the previous post. They were very technical in academically, artistically, and religiously. Lots of influence of Hata clan can be seen like this in the old time of Japan. As stated before, some academical research say that Hata clan came over to Japan 5 times or 6 times in total from BC 400 or 500 year to AD 400 to 700 year. For the first group was probably people of Judaism, and the later groups could be primitive time of Jewish Christian. Of course this is not yet proved, but they academic researchers say there are a lot of possible proof to show their opinions are right.
Anyway, talking about Hata clan takes more time. Not enough in this small space.
By the way, we Japanese don’t know ( or didn’t know ) why this big graves were designed like this strange shape, square front – circle back type. Recetly I found an interesting study about this answer.
If we look at the shape in the right position, it looks like a kind of pot. And it’s really similar shape to the Jar of Manna, one of the three Sacred Treasures. If we compare 2 shapes, they are almost exactly the same as in the pictures in the bottom !
Actually we don’t knwo why this design was decided. But If…If it was designed to show this Jar shape, it’s totally impossible for original Japanese to draw the design like this because we don’t have the Jar in our life custom and ( of course ) the original Japanese didn’t know what the Jar of Manna was like. How could they draw the design in the close shape ???? Mystery.
If Hata clan was really a group from Israel then, this could be explained well. They knew the Jar of Manna, and they were the builders of this grave. Also, the Japanese religion was formed by them. Japanese Shinto religion was always with Emperor of Japan. So… Hata Clan could make this shape grave for Emperors of Japan.
You might be asking why Hata clan with Judaism made Japanese Emperor’s grave ? Japanese Emperors stay with Japanese Shinto religion, so it’s strange if people of Judaism made such graves for Emperors. This could be a good question.
Again, some academic researchers say that Japanese Emperors also could be originated from the people from ancient Israel. It means Emperors could be from Jewish blood with Judaism. What !? What !? This is such an universally broken topic ! Who would believe it ?
Yes, it’s hard to believe it. But if this was true, all the story can be beautifully told in order. Against old studies of Japan, some or many of people support this idea now, this is also a fact. Please see this next website for more information about it. This is written by a famous Japanese specialist about it. http://www5.ocn.ne.jp/~magi9/isracame.htm
To know the truth, one of the best ways is excavation of the graves including this largest grave of a Japanese Emperor, Nintoku Emperor Grave. Then at least many of the concerned things would be found. However, nobody has ever tried it in the history because it’s not allowed by the Emperial Office of Japan. Why ? I would like to know the reason too.
There is one rumore about this. Soon after the second world war, which means when Japan signed the paper of unconditional surrender, the first thing American General Headquaters did in Japan after they landed on Japan was the work of excavation in this grave, Nintoku Emperor Grave. I don’t know if this is true, but some people strongly say it’s true. If so, the mystery would again start.
