You may recall from the Ōsaka’s Megaliths post I did a while back, the story of the giant stones of Ōsaka Castle. Well, the subject of the vintage postcard below is the very same thing. In the Megaliths post I included photos of the two largest stones, the Tako (蛸石) & Higo (肥後石) stones. Below we see the Tako stone again plus the third largest, the Furisode stone.

The Furisode stone (振袖石) sits to the left, the street-lamp covering a fraction of its surface. Furisode actually means Kimono sleeve, and that’s exactly what it looks like. Wow! Tako means octopus, and you can see from the shape of the large stone on the right, an octopus… roughly cut into a pentagonal-looking rectangle.

So, next time you find yourself at Ōsaka Castle, see if you can’t track down these stones for yourself.