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*''Japanese'': 新安沉船 ''(Shin'an chinsen)''
*''Japanese'': 新安沉船 ''(Shin'an chinsen)''
The Sinan shipwreck was that of a ship from [[Ningbo]] which sank off the Korean coast in [[1323]], carrying some 8,000 strings of [[Chinese currency|coins]], in addition to porcelains and other cargo. Discovered and excavated in the 1980s, the find was noted for its unusually nearly intact cargo. The shipwreck provides numerous valuable insights into medieval maritime trade, ceramics styles, currency, etc.
The Sinan shipwreck was that of a ship from [[Ningbo]] which sank off the Korean coast in [[1323]], carrying some 8,000 strings of [[Chinese currency|coins]], more than 24,000 porcelains and ceramics,<ref name=museum>Gallery labels, Sinan Shipwreck Collection, National Museum of Korea.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/27679955108/in/dateposted-public/][https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/27679955108/in/photostream/]</ref> in addition to other cargo. Discovered and excavated in the 1970s-1980s, the find was noted for its unusually nearly intact cargo. The shipwreck provides numerous valuable insights into medieval maritime trade, ceramics styles, currency, etc.
The ship contained numerous [[mokkan|wooden tablets]] featuring Japanese names, including one of a ''[[kanjin hijiri]]'' working to collect funds for construction efforts at the Kyoto temple [[Tofuku-ji|Tôfuku-ji]], which had been severely damaged in a fire in [[1319]]. The cargo also included numerous works of [[porcelain]] and [[celadon]], and roughly 28 tons of [[Song Dynasty]] coins, loaded into the keel as ballast.
The discovery of the shipwreck began in 1976 with a fisherman's discovery of a celadon vase near the coast of Sinan county, South Korea. Excavations took place over the next eight years.<ref name=museum/>
The ship contained numerous [[mokkan|wooden tablets]] featuring Japanese names, including one of a ''[[kanjin hijiri]]'' working to collect funds for construction efforts at the Kyoto temple [[Tofuku-ji|Tôfuku-ji]], which had been severely damaged in a fire in [[1319]]. The cargo also included numerous works of [[porcelain]] from [[Jiangxi province]], [[celadon]]s from [[Zhejiang province]], and other ceramics from elsewhere in southern China, along with roughly 28 tons of [[Song Dynasty]] coins, loaded into the keel as ballast.<ref name=museum/> Excavation efforts also brought up roughly 1,000 pieces of [[sandalwood]] and some 720 fragments of the ship's hull.<ref name=museum/> Brass, tin, copper, and bronze items, including ladles, cooking pots, and measuring tools, were also found, along with spices, seeds, lacquerwares, weapons, game pieces and game boards, Buddhist statuettes, and other ritual implements.
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*Amino Yoshihiko, Alan Christy (trans.), ''Rethinking Japanese History'', Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan (2012), 147.
*Amino Yoshihiko, Alan Christy (trans.), ''Rethinking Japanese History'', Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan (2012), 147.
*Richard von Glahn, "The Ningbo-Hakata Merchant Network and the Reorientation of East Asian Maritime Trade, 1150-1350," ''Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies'' 74:2 (2014), 272, 279.
*Richard von Glahn, "The Ningbo-Hakata Merchant Network and the Reorientation of East Asian Maritime Trade, 1150-1350," ''Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies'' 74:2 (2014), 272, 279.
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