Height 2.5 meters Asuka-mura, Oka This stone is thought by some to have been used as a boundary marker between fields under the jori land division system which was put into effect after the latter part of the 7th century. Others think it may have been used as part of a dam across the Asukagawa. In popular belief it has been taken as a "Miroku" (image of the Buddha of the future)

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