The Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds (埼玉県立さきたま史跡の博物館) is a museum in Gyōda, Saitama, Japan. The building is inside of Sakitama Kofun Park.

The Saitama Prefectural Sakitama Historic Site Museum (Saitama Commuter Sakitama Shikibu Tsukuba Tsukuba) has maintained the Saitama Tumulus Group (national historic site) consisting of 9 large tumuli in Saitama Prefecture’s Gyoda City’s Saitama Prefecture Mound Park It is a museum in the park. Opened in 1969 (Showa 44).

Saitama (Saakitama) burial mound group “is located in Saitama (Saitama), the birthplace of the prefecture name. In addition to Shinkansen innenkei (Sakimaki Sakita) Shrine, here is Ishida Tsutsumi (Ishida Komi), the remains of the Tensho 18-year-old Shinobu (Oshio) ruin, Shinobu Matsudaira’s There are Tenjoji Temple in Bodaiji Temple (Tenshoujiji), etc., and it is blessed with rich historic sites.

In Saitama prefecture, we built a “Saki Tama Fudoki no hill” to secure a large area, mainly for this ancient tomb group, to improve its environment, to better preserve and further utilize the burial mounds. As part of its construction “Sakimta Material Museum” was established in 1947.

In April 2006, based on the reorganization improvement plan of the prefectural museum facilities, collecting, storing and investigating research on historical sites and other archaeological materials, as well as by making use of it, to develop educational, academic and cultural In order to make a contribution, we started again as a “Museum of Historic Sakita History”.

The museum was originally established as Sakitama Museum (さきたま資料館) in 1969 as part of the construction of Sakitama Fudoki Hills (さきたま風土記の丘), an archeological preserve encompassing the Sakitama Kofun Cluster. In 2006, Saitama Prefecture renamed the museum as Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds and made its goals the research, collection, preservation of the site’s archeological data as well as educating the site’s cultural and historical value to its visitors.

Since opening in 1969, the Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds (formerly known as the Sakitama Museum) has been actively involved in the preservation and maintenance of the Sakitama Kofun Cluster, a nationally designated historical site consisting of ancient burial mounds, and related projects. To restore and preserve what the Sakitama Kofun Cluster looked like when it was first constructed, the Museum researches and collects materials regarding the historical site and houses many of the artifacts discovered during excavations. Two categories of artifacts are introduced here: some of the burial accessories that were discovered at the main site (the burial mound) of the Inariyama Kofun and later designated as national treasures, and a particular type of earthenware called haniwa, figures characteristic of the Kofun Period that were arranged on top of the burial mounds or in rows along nearby ditches and moats. These artifacts are extremely valuable resources in understanding the ancient history of Japan.

About the mission of the museum of Saitama prefectural historic sites: The museum of prefectural historic sites provides a comfortable historical space for the citizens by preserving, maintaining and utilizing the Saitama burial mounds and the ruins of the Sugaya kan.

In addition, it is a museum that collects and keeps archaeological materials of Saitama, conducts survey research, exhibits exhibitions, disseminates awareness, etc., responds to the diversity of learning desires of the citizens, and contributes to creation of rich prefectural awareness and creation of new culture.

The museum of Sakitama Historical Site will surely preserve, manage and utilize valuable cultural assets including historical sites “Saitama burial mound group” and national treasure “Musashi Saitama Inari shrine burial mounds” in the future in the future. In addition, the fundamental mission is to proceed with the collection, storage and investigation of various historical sites and ruins that colorize the history of Saitama, as well as related materials.

We will continue the survey of the Saitama ancient burial mound group, continue to develop and promote historical site development, and will release safely the excavated items including “Kan Martian Iron Sword” excavated from Inari Shrine Kofun.

Maintain and manage the ancient tomb parks with more than 330,000 square meters centered on 9 ancient tombs so that visitors can use it with confidence and provide them as a comfortable historic spot where you can feel ermant romance I will continue.

As a comprehensive museum related to historical sites and ruins and archaeological materials in the prefecture including the Saitama burial mound group, we will proceed with gathering, storing, investigating and researching related materials, and collaborating with municipalities and other organizations to display outcomes as planned exhibitions and lectures We will make it public.

We will proactively develop businesses that utilize the Saitama burial mound group and museum-owned materials widely in lifelong learning and school education.

As a museum of historical sites, we support the projects that municipalities and others will implement regarding survey, preservation and utilization of historic sites and ruins in the prefecture.

For the projects and services at Saitama prefecture museum facilities, self-assessment is carried out every fiscal year from fiscal 2006 for each year.

The museum opened in 1969 as Saitama Prefecture Sakita Material Museum. In accordance with the reorganization plan of the prefectural museum in Saitama Prefecture, in 2006 it was renamed Saitama Prefecture Sakitta Historic Site Museum. The exhibition facilities consist of the main building and the Shogun Mountain Kofun Exhibition Hall.

There are two exhibition rooms in the main building, national treasure exhibition room and plan exhibition room. In the national treasure exhibition room are excavated articles of ruins of the Saqitama burial mound and other surrounding areas such as Kim Jong Il Sword (national treasure). At the exhibition room, regular exhibitions are held.

Shogun Mountain Kofun Exhibition Hall is an exhibition hall that opened in 1997 so that you can see the inside of the stone room where the state of burial was restored.

“Laughing Haniwa” “Otozu Mirror” etc. were donated from the former Nagaoka Sogo Museum which was closed in 2013, and from 20th February 2016 “New Collection Exhibit – Donation from the Old Nagatoro Sogo Museum” was held.

The Inari shrine excavated excavated items such as the “Kintaro Iron Sword” kept by the hotel were designated as important cultural properties in 1981, national treasure as “Musashi Saitama Inariyama ancient burial excavated item”. The owner of the excavated item is Japan (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

From the Inari mountain ancient tomb, relics such as gold-mingled iron sword, godsmith, rugged handball, silver ring, swords, harness etc were excavated. Among them, the gold-messenger iron sword is a first-class material on ancient history research, in which inscriptions with a total of 115 characters are written in gold inlay on both sides of the sword. In the inscription there is the age of the “hot spring year” and the name of “the procrastinating multi-support big thee”. In the common opinion, “Year of the Year” is said to fall under 471 years, “Adjoining multi support” is “Wakatakere”, it is said to fall under the Emperor Okami (“Wa Wa Take” written in “Song Book”), but there are also huge stories. For details of the burial mound and the excavated items, see Inari Shimokuma (Gyoda-shi) 」「 Iron Sword · Iron-sword inscription 」.

Nearly 100,000 visitors come to the museum every year to learn about Sakitama Kofun Cluster and its artifacts, including a national treasure, Inariyama Sword. The museum consists of two buildings, Sakitama Shiseki Hall and Shōgunyama Kofun Exhibit Hall, which opened in 1997 and allows visitors to walk inside of the reconstructed stone chamber of the Shōgunyama Kofun.