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The Mimizuka, which was renamed from Hanazuka, is a monument in Kyoto, Japan. It is dedicated to the sliced noses of killed Korean soldiers and civilians, as well as those of Ming Chinese troops, taken as war trophies during the Japanese invasions of Korea from 1592 to 1598.

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May 20, 2023 visit (Updated because “Food Fanatic” wanted to throw shade at me personally) Oblivious? You’re the one using political buzzwords like genocide to describe a conflict 400 years ago. I’m Catholic and thousands of Catholics were martyred by Hideyoshi and the Tokugawa and later by feudal Korea. You don’t see me whining about it and calling the current people of Korea and Japan genocide supporters now and forever. I gave a review of the temple up the street that deifies Hideyoshi...
Read more「耳塚(鼻塚)」 この塚は、16世紀末、天下を統一した豊臣秀吉がさらに大陸にも支配の手を伸ばそうとして、朝鮮半島に侵攻したいわゆる文禄・慶長の役(朝鮮史では、壬辰・丁酉の倭乱、1592~1598)にかかる遺跡である。 秀吉配下の武将は、古来一般の戦功のしるしである首級のかわりに、朝鮮軍民男女の鼻や耳をそぎ、塩漬けにして日本へ持ち帰った。それらは秀吉の命によりこの地に埋められ、供養の儀がもたれたという。これが伝えられる「耳塚(鼻塚)」のはじまりである。 「耳塚(鼻塚)」は、史跡「御土居」などとともに京都に現存する豊臣秀吉の遺構の一つであり、塚の上に建つ五輪の石塔は、その形状がすでに寛永2年(1643)の古絵図にみとめられ、塚の築成から程ないころの創建と思われる。 秀吉が惹き起こしたこの戦争は、朝鮮半島における人々の根強い抵抗によって敗退に終わったが、戦役が遺したこの「耳塚(鼻塚)」は、戦乱下に被った朝鮮民衆の受難を、歴史の遺訓として。いまに伝えている。 京都市 "Ear Mound (Nose Mound)" This mound is a ruin related to...
Read moreA quiet monument located in a creepy sleepy town. It is not a monument of great achievement but a monument of how someone cannot sleep well at night and needed the Buddhist monks help to pacify the Korean and Chinese victims. That’s why the monument was built in the first place. A unifier of Japan yes but at the sacrifice of many others.
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