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*''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]] (28 tons), in addition to porcelains and other cargo. Discovered and excavated in the late 20th century, the shipwreck provides numerous valuable insights into medieval maritime trade, ceramics styles, currency, etc.
Some scholarship indicates the ship likely had been commissioned by the Kyoto temple [[Tofukuji|Tôfuku-ji]], in order to obtain Chinese coins and goods to help fund the rebuilding of the temple, which was severely damaged in a [[1319]] fire.
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==References==
*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.
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]
[[Category:Ships]]
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]] (28 tons), in addition to porcelains and other cargo. Discovered and excavated in the late 20th century, the shipwreck provides numerous valuable insights into medieval maritime trade, ceramics styles, currency, etc.
Some scholarship indicates the ship likely had been commissioned by the Kyoto temple [[Tofukuji|Tôfuku-ji]], in order to obtain Chinese coins and goods to help fund the rebuilding of the temple, which was severely damaged in a [[1319]] fire.
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==References==
*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.
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]
[[Category:Ships]]
