Where can you find the "mound of ears"?

serpa

Kyoto, Japan. A mound of human ears and noses. Read more here: http://tinyurl.com/27de2jj Jun 27 10, 9:15 PM

star_gazer

The Mimizuka is almost unknown to Japanese public while most Koreans are aware of it; the Ear Mound is a symbol of cruelty. A plaque, which was later removed, stood in front of the Ear Mound in the 1960s with the passage, "One cannot say that cutting off ears or noses was so atrocious by the standard of the time." Most guidebooks do not mention about the Ear Mound, and only few Japanese or foreign tourists visit the site. The majority of visiting tourists are Korean - Korean tour buses are often seen near parked near the Ear Mound. In 1982, not a single Japanese school textbook mentioned the Ear Mound. As of 1997, the mound is referred to in about half of all high-school history textbooks according to Shigeo Shimoyama, an official of Jikkyo, a publishing company. The publisher released the first text book mentioning the Ear Mound the mid 1980s of Japan. The Education Ministry of Japan at that time opposed the description "too vivid" and pressured the publisher to reduce the tone and also to describe Hideyoshi for religiously dedicating the Ear Mound in order to store the spirits of the killed people. In the 1970s under the Park Chung-hee administration, some of the officials of the Korean government asked Japan to level the monument. However, most Koreans said that the mound should stay in Japan as a reminder of past savagery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimizuka Jun 27 10, 10:21 PM

Zbeckabee

Nose tombs are tombs that contain human noses or other body parts that were severed from Koreans and brought back to Japan as trophies during the Japanese invasions of Korea in the late 16th century. War trophies were a part of Japanese tradition at the time and samurai warriors were often paid according to how many they collected. One such nose tomb was discovered in 1983 in Okayama near Osaka. This tomb held the severed and pickled noses of approximately 20,000 dead Koreans which were eventually returned to Korea in 1992 and cremated. A similar tomb still exists today in Kyoto called the Mimizuka, literally "Ear Mound". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose_tomb Jun 27 10, 10:44 PM