However, in 1879, the Ministry of Home Affairs specified a keyhole-shaped mound in Tamura-cho, Kameyama City (the Nobono Otsuka burial mound), which had been called the 'Cho-ji zuka,' as the tomb of Yamato Takeru, and named it the 'Nobono burial mound.'
が、明治12年、内務省は亀山市田村町の「丁字塚」と呼ばれる前方後円墳（能褒野王塚古墳）がヤマトタケルの墓であると治定し、「能褒野陵」と命名した。