Shikanoshima Island
Small island where a Mongol fleet once anchored, near the spot of a buried ancient gold seal.
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The guide to Shikanoshima Island opens in the summer of 1281, with a wounded warrior named Kawano Michiari boarding a Mongol ship anchored in the waters off the island during Kublai Khan's second invasion fleet. It follows the nightly raids Japanese warriors staged against the anchored fleet, boat by boat, over the fifty days the ships sat within sight of shore. Along the way it reaches back two thousand years to a golden seal a farmer once dug from this same ground.
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