History in general Mystery of the Royal Tomb / Kazutaka KONO Kodansha Gendai Shinsho

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History in general
kodansha Gendai Shinsho / "Why Was the Royal Tomb Built?" The theme of this book is this simple question. In human history, there are many monuments for the king's burial, such as the pyramids built by the Egyptian pharaohs and the ridges built by the Chinese emperors. It is believed that the king built these monuments to show off his power. Therefore, it is common sense to understand that the size of the royal tomb is proportional to the size of the power, and that the royal tomb is a symbol of the king's power, and it is written in textbooks as well. However, the purpose of this book is to refute this established theory directly and to understand the royal tomb from a new perspective. In each chapter of this book, we raise the mystery and answer each question. The purpose of this book is to shed light on various aspects of the characteristics of the royal tomb. (1) Whose tomb is the royal tomb? (2) Is the royal tomb and the city indispensable for civilization? (3) Why the royal tomb increases and shrinks? (4) Why expensive items are buried in the royal tomb? (5) Why the royal tomb was built across periods and regions? (6) Why the funeral complex was born? (7) Why the royal tomb declines when the nation matures? (8) What the royal tomb brought about. The above question raises the fundamental question of our thinking which has stopped with the stereotypical understanding that "the royal tomb = the symbol of power". I did not want this book to be like an encyclopedia because I wanted to make it not a mere educational book but a manual for communicating with the silent royal tomb. (6) Why the funeral complex was born? (7) Why the royal tomb declines when the nation matures? (8) What the royal tomb brought about. I did not want this book to be like an encyclopedia because I wanted it wanted it not to be a mere educational book but to be a manual for communicating with the silent royal tomb. Only through this is a strong belief that I could not hear the silent voices of the people in the era of the royal tomb. The royal tomb is not for the king's own desire for power. It is a message from the past that is born when people voluntarily entrust the survival of society to the king. Based on this idea of reversal, I would like to see the society in which the king's tomb continued from a standpoint different from the established theory. This book is a book of thought experiment based on this belief.