Daisen Kofun
Japan's largest tomb mound is raised for a Yamato ruler
In the mid-5th century the keyhole-shaped Daisen mound, 486 metres long and ringed by three moats, was raised near today's Osaka; tradition holds it to be the tomb of Emperor Nintoku. Such giant mounds show how far the power of the Yamato rulers had grown in the Kofun period.
Wikipedia (English) · 5th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 455 Vandals sack Rome — 5 years later
Middle East
- 451 Council of Chalcedon — 1 year later
Americas
- c. 431 Ilopango eruption — 19 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Attila (aged 44)