Mimizuka

The Mimizuka mound rises as a grassy, stone-walled hill tucked within a walled garden. It contains the noses of thousands of Korean soldiers and civilians killed during the Japanese invasions of Korea in the late sixteenth century. Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered his commanders to collect noses instead of heads as proof of enemy kills to be shipped back as macabre trophies. The mound stands as a burial site for these remains, serving as a silent, grave marker for one of history's most brutal wartime practices.