関ヶ原の戦い Battle of Sekigahara

West burial mound for heads

West burial mound for heads

West burial mound for heads
address	2236　Sekigahara Sekigahara-cho Gifu-ken Japan
Tel	0584-43-1111(town office community promotion section)
over sea	81-584-43-1289(board of education)

JR Sekigahara Station (about meters to the west)
nearby sta.	JR Sekigahara Sta.700m	9 min on foot
nearby IC	Sekigahara Interchange 1150m	3 min by car
	parking lot	3cars
	comfort station	No
The West burial mound for heads is about 12 minutes' walk west from Sekigahara station, along National Route 21 on the right. Ieyasu ordered Shigekado Takenaka to make the West burial mound for heads. He buried the soldiers of the WESTERN ARMY and soldiers without a head. For this reason, the West burial mound for heads is called the Mound for Severed Torso. In those days the area was about 23,100 ㎡, now it’s 30m in circumference. There are two memorial halls in front of the mound to hold memorial services for soldiers

related military commander
EASTERN ARMY	Ieyasu Tokugawa 2,560,000koku(Sagami, Musashi)	30,000 men
EASTERN ARMY	Shigekado Takenaka 12,000koku(Minofuwa)	180 men
	Statue of the thousand-armed goddess
	Statue of Bato Kannon (horse-headed Kannon)
In 1793, the Statue of the thousand-armed goddess and the Statue of Bato Kannon (horse-headed Kannon) were built by the local people.