Round Kofun

A round kofun

Round Kofun (円墳, Enpun) are a kind of Kofun that has only a round mound and no square segment. There are many types of Kofun including Zenpō-kōen-fun and Zenpō-kōhō-fun and Round Kofun and Square Kofun.

Tsude Hiroshi [ja] argues that there is a hierarchy of Zenpō-kōen-fun > Zenpō-kōhō-fun > Round Kofun > Square Kofun that he calls the Kofun system [en; ja].

References

  1. ↑ Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group. Chapter 2: Description (PDF). pp. 21–163.
  2. 1 2 "About kofun -Scale and order- | Nonaka Kofun-Project for the Preservation and Utilization of Artifacts from Nonaka Kofun/Osaka University Department of Archaeology". www.let.osaka-u.ac.jp. Retrieved 2025-12-07.