石馬谷古墳

It is an old burial mound excavated by Ishiba, an important cultural property. The replica of Ishiba is dedicated to the roadside station, and the real one is dedicated to Tenjingaki Shrine.

It is a stone horse made by scraping the entire horse from a stone from amphibole andesite from Oyama. The body length is about 150 centimeters and the height is about 90 centimeters. The front legs are lost and the torso and rear legs are repaired and joined, but the horse features such as the mane and the long face, and the harnesses such as the crows, the reins, and the stirrups The state of wearing is finely expressed by sculpture. In addition, there are traces of red pigment on some parts of the body, and it has been pointed out that the entire horse was painted red in the past. Specified as an important cultural property of the country in 1959, it is now carefully stored in the Amami Kagami Shrine in the Kamiiso village. About production age It is said that Ishima was once stood near the Ishigaya Tumulus at the foot of the Kamiiso village and was worshiped as “Ishima Daimyojin” in the Edo period. The Ishibaya Burial Mound, designated as a National Historic Site as the Mukoyama Burial Mounds, is a 61-meter-long front and rear circular burial mound, and is considered one of the tombs of the successive Australian leaders who built the Mukaiyama Burial Mounds. It is estimated that the stone horse was originally set up on this burial mound, and the production date is considered to be the latter half of the 6th century, when the Ishibaya burial mound was built, and the latter half of the Kofun period. Stone people and stone horse culture In the Kofun period, it is customary to line Minowa on old tombs nationwide, but in the northern part of Kyushu in the middle of the Kofun period, in some parts of Fukuoka and Kumamoto prefectures, stone sculptures called stone people and stone horses are used in old tombs. There was a custom to line up. There are several examples of stone horses in the northern part of Kyushu, including Iwadoyama Kofun, Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture. It can be said that this is a valuable resource that allows you to see a part of the exchange with Kyushu in the Kofun period.