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Every autumn, a scarecrow so big you have to look up at it appears in the Inabuchi terraced rice fields. Its subject is chosen from that year's news, and the same one never stands twice.
Prince Naka no Ōe and Nakatomi no Kamatari went to study with a scholar who had spent more than thirty years on the continent after travelling with an embassy to Sui China. His school is said to have stood on a sloping road in Inabuchi.
Several theories have been put forward about who is buried in the largest keyhole-shaped tomb in Asuka Village.
From the accession of his father, Emperor Keitai, to the reigns of the children who took the throne one after another: tracing the emperor who stands at the threshold of the Asuka period.