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The Yoshinogari Site

The Yoshinogari site is a large Yayoi-period site in Kanzaki City and Yoshinogari Town in Saga Prefecture.

Excavation began in 1986.

In 1989 a huge moated village was found, and it became big news.

A kangō shūraku is a village with a deep ditch, called a kangō, dug all around it.

It is one of the largest moated villages in Japan.

The village was protected by a double moat.

Inside the moat there was a fence, and watchtowers are also thought to have stood there.

A watchtower (monomi-yagura) is a tall building for watching to see whether enemies are coming.

Inside there were also large buildings and many raised-floor storehouses.

The large buildings are thought to have been used for meetings and ceremonies.

Many jar-coffin graves were found at the site.

A jar-coffin grave (kamekan-bo) is a grave in which the body is placed in a large jar and buried.

Skeletons without heads and bones with arrowheads in them were also found, which shows that there was fighting.

The site is thought to have been used mainly from about the third century BCE to about the third century CE.

Today it is the Yoshinogari Historical Park.

In the park, watchtowers, raised-floor storehouses, pit houses and other buildings have been rebuilt.

Visitors can see for themselves what it was like at that time.

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