In times of war in Japan it was customary to take the head of the enemy dead, as the feudal lord renumbered the soldiers for it. However, a tremendous war against Korea in the sixteenth century began a new and macabre tradition. Due to the large number of soldiers and Korean civilians dead and overcrowding on the ships carrying Japanese troops was much easier and more comfortable returning to their ears and noses preserved in barrels of brine instead of heads.
Even across the country rose monuments, tombs as a trophy of war, where were buried the ears and noses of the Korean victims of the war.

Of all these extraordinary monuments called "tombs of noses" or the "tombs of ears", the best known is Mimizuka, the hill of the forty thousand noses, located in Kyoto and which were deposited about 40,000 ears and noses.

Currently Mimizuka is almost unknown by the Japanese for the Koreans but is still very present and is a symbol of cruelty while the majority of Koreans are aware of this, the Ear Mound is a symbol of cruelty. Their existence has been conveniently erased from school textbooks and guidebooks in Japan.

But most surprising is that these 40,000 are estimated to human ears and noses as trophies deposited in Mimizuka were only a fraction of the total, since the vast majority of "trophies" rotted, surviving only preserved in barrels of brine .

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