This tomb held the severed and pickled noses of approximately 20,000 dead Koreans which were eventually returned to Korea in 1992 and cremated.[3] A similar tomb still exists today in Kyoto called the Mimizuka, literally "Ear Mound", although it contains noses and not ears.[4] The use of the term "ear" was suggested by the Confucian scholar Hayashi Razan as a euphemism since nose tomb was considered too barbaric.[5] The noses in the Mimizuka Ear Mound were brought from Korea in barrels of brine and remained in the location for 400 years.[6]