Twice ToldMysteries
Vanishings
TaleKumano and Saga, Japan, 219 BCE to 1826
How Xu Fu got to Japan
The Shiji sends Xu Fu to sea for the First Emperor and names no landing. The first text we found that puts him in Japan is a monk's book of the 950s.
国立公文書館所蔵, 310-0158, cropped CaseHamhung and Anbyeon, Korea, 1402 to 1687
Taejo, Pak Sun and the envoys to Hamhung
In 1687 an official told the king a family's story about Pak Sun and King Taejo was not the fact of the time. The Sillok has Pak Sun killed in a rebel army.
National Museum of Korea, accession M 146, KOGL Type 1