Kei-kō is buried along the same Yamanobe road as Sūjin (chapter 75), and modern Japanese archaeology has tentatively identified his mound with the Shibutani Mukōyama Kofun in Tenri—a vast keyhole-shaped tomb roughly 300 metres long. The Imperial Household Agency identification prevents excavation. If the identification holds, Kei-kō’s tomb is one of the largest Kofun-period mounds in Japan, and his reign corresponds roughly to the late fourth or early fifth century CE. The compression of his eighty-child reign, the Yamato-take cycle, the eastern conquest, the long lyrical death-song into the simple two-sentence closing here is characteristic of the Kojiki’s burial-formula. Major and minor emperors alike receive the same final paragraph: age, place of burial, end of cycle. The chronicle is austere about death even when the life has been spectacular. The cathedral of narrative ends in a one-line epitaph.