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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 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.

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 cinnamon, pepper, cloves, and other spices; seeds; lacquerwares; weapons; game pieces and game boards; Buddhist statuettes; and other ritual implements. The 8,000 coins found in the shipwreck weighed a total of some 28 tons, and included coins as old as a ''huaquan'' coin from 14 CE, and ones as new as ''Zhida tongbao'' and ''Dayuan tongbao'' from [[1310]]; 340 ingots of precious metals were also found.<ref name=museum/>

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