Oideyasu! Please take off your shoes.
Look how far we haven't come. This hillock near Gojo-Kawabata entombs the severed ears and noses of Koreans that were brought back as proof of conquest and presented to Hideyoshi by his soldiers in the late 16th century in exchange for rewards.
OUCH!
Posted by: Steph on March 25, 2004 03:57 PMThey didn't sneak up behind people and snip off their ears. These were taken from the battlefield corpses. Ouch isn't the word.
Posted by: nils on March 25, 2004 04:54 PMI had... er... heard (pardon) of the ear mound in Kyoto, but assumed it was down in the southern portion of the city. Knowing that I shared the same street (Gojo) with it is sorta creepy.
Posted by: Jerry on March 28, 2004 06:50 AM
