中国元代“神风”战舰现踪日本海底

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BBC Chinese, Oct 25, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... pan_yuan_ship.shtml
(长崎近海; 位于水面下20米深处的海床上)

, which is translated and summarized from
Ship from Failed Mongol Invasion Found off Japan. BBC, Oct 25, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15452071

Note:
(a) There is no need to read the BBC English.
(b) A more detailed English-language report:

Yuan Dynasty Fleet Ship Excavated. Yomiuri, Oct 24, 2011.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T111024004200.htm

(i) Matsuura, Nagasaki  長崎(県) 松浦(市)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuura,_Nagasaki
(Fukushima 福島 and Takashima 鷹島 are the largest [islands in the Imari Bay 伊万里 湾])

Nesides the first map in the above Wiki, the relative positions of Takashima, Imari Bay and its surroundings can be found in the map of
松浦市
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E6%B5%A6%E5%B8%82
(ii) Yoshifumi IKEDA  池田 榮史
(iii) University of the Ryukus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Ryukyus
(琉球大学; abbreviated to Ryūdai 琉大; Established 1950; public)
(iv) Kamakura period
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamakura_period
(1185 or 1192-1333; shogunate 幕府 was based in Kamakura (present-day Kamakura, Kanagawa 神奈川(県) 鎌倉(市)) [though emperors held court at Kyoto])
(v) Goryeo 高麗 (918-1392)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goryeo
(vi) Battle of Bun'ei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bun%27ei
(文永の役; Nov 19, 1274; Yuan navy landing at Hakata Bay were grossly outnumbered by the samurai force; [but] the samurai were hopelessly outmatched: The Mongols also employed an early form of rocket artillery, and their infantry used phalanx-like tactics, holding off the samurai with their shields and spears)

* This is the first time I learn Chinese army used phalanx formation 方陣.
* Hakata Bay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakata_Bay
(博多湾; inside latter-day Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture 福岡県 福岡市)
* Bun'ei 文永 (1264-1275) was a Japanese era name 年号 of emperor Kameyama-tennō 亀山天皇.  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bun%27ei
(vii) Battle of Koan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Koan
(弘安の役; Aug 15, 1281)

* Koan 弘安 (1278-1288) was a Japanese era name 年号 [shared by two emperors]: Go-Uda-tennō 後宇多天皇 (1267-1324; reign 1274-1287 compelled to abdicate) and Fushimi-tennō 伏見天皇 (1265-1317; reign 1287-1298)).
Kōan (Kamakura period)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan_(Kamakura_period)