Japanese samurai boarding Yuan ships in 1281
The wreck of a ship lies on the seabed off Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture
Posted on 10/28/2011 8:45:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The vessel is the first of its kind to have been discovered relatively intact and dates from a series of attempts by Kublai Khan, emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, to subjugate Japan between 1274 and 1281.
Researchers have previously only been able to recover anchor stones and cannonballs from the scattered wrecks of the Mongol fleets and they believe that this latest find will shed new light on the maritime technology of the day.
The warship was located with ultrasonic equipment about 3 feet beneath the seabed at a depth of 75 feet. The archeological team, from Okinawa's University of the Ryukus, had been carrying out a search of the waters around Takashima Island, in Nagasaki Prefecture, because the area had yielded other items from Mongol ships.
Historical records suggest that some 4,400 ships carrying 140,000 Mongol soldiers landed in Japan in 1281 and skirmished with samurai in northern Kyushu. But after returning to their boats, the fleet was struck by a devastating typhoon that put an end to the invasion plans - a storm known to all Japanese as "kamizake," meaning divine wind, and again invoked in the dying days of the Second World War.
The researchers believe the boats tried to find shelter in the coves of northern Kyushu, an assumption borne out by the discovery by Professor Yoshifumi Ikeda's team.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Japanese samurai boarding Yuan ships in 1281
The wreck of a ship lies on the seabed off Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture
Shipwreck may be part of Kublai Khan’s lost fleet
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-25/asia/world_asia_japan-archaeology-shipwreck_1_fleet-ship-invasion?_s=PM:ASIA
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“kamizake,”?
“Divine wine”
This is why you don’t see any cruise lines stopping in Japan. Carnival Cruise Lines stopped there once, a whole load of samuai got on the ship and started hacking up the guests. Too much “adventure cruising” there.
It comes from the merger of Kawasaki and Suzuki.
I tried growing one of those banzai trees once, it kept chopping itself down.
“It comes from the merger of Kawasaki and Suzuki.”
Best explanation, I guess! 8^)
“Making Sense of Piles of Junks”
Archaeology of the Lost Fleet of Kublai Khan
https://nautarch.tamu.edu/shiplab/randall/
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