My grandfather served in the United States Navy in World War II where our ships encountered what was to them a new style of fighter: the Kamikaze pilot. The Kamikaze pilot was an individual who would quite literally drive a Mitsubishi Zero plane that was unequipped with guns and flew their planes directly into American ships to keep them away from reaching Japan. The word Kamikaze has an ancient origin. Literally translated it means “divine wind.” Kamikaze was used for close to a thousand years to refer to the two storms that saved the Japanese mainland from the fleets of the emperor Kublai Khan. Kublai Khan attempted two amphibious attacks on the Japanese in the years of 1274 and 1281. Legend has it that the Japanese Emperor himself prayed
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Hayashida and KOSUWA back to the Mongol fleet. There would be two campaigns during the years of 1994 and 1995. These campaigns were carried out with the support of the Nagasaki Prefecture and the Takashima-cho Board of Education. The main excavation site was located 150 meters off the coast of coast and had a depth of 21 meters. The previously mentioned sonar technology made by Mozai had located 4 major anomalies at the bottom of the sea floor. Three wooden anchors were found here. These three anchors were found to be made of the same red oak which would have existed on mainland China in the 13th century. The wooden anchors were carbon dated and indeed found to have been from the 1281 invasion attempt. A total of 74 objects were were found in the 1994 campaign. Along with the three anchors, seventeen stone anchor stocks were found with scattered material remnants The 1995 campaign found wooden objects pottery fragments, leather, and …show more content…
It was found from the wreckage that the Mongol fleet had been composed of quickly made flat-bottomed river boats in the traditional Chinese style. The construction of sea-faring ships was viewed as a process that would have been too slow and taken too much expense. Riverboats lack the curved keel that sea faring ships possess to prevent from capsizing. The legends of the two lost fleets of Kublai Khan that set out to make both Korea and Japan parts of the Mongol Empire were proven. The thunder bombs of the ancient manuscripts were brought up and given form. They now can be tested to how effective they would have been in combat. Through finding a hull structure we can now measure how large some of the ships were. Through the plates that we find and private possessions of those who sailed we can find information on the lives of those who came before us. In short, archeology is the fact checker of history. Through scientific means we are able to recover artifacts from our past to see what was true such as the thunder bombs and what is unlikely such as the 300 foot Chinese Junks of myth. Underwater Archaeology as we saw at the Takashima site is essential because we live in a world that is majority ocean and one where the sea has served to connect us all. We have traded through the sea, migrated through the sea, and fought through the sea. Underwater archaeology is also essential because the ocean
Hayashida and KOSUWA back to the Mongol fleet. There would be two campaigns during the years of 1994 and 1995. These campaigns were carried out with the support of the Nagasaki Prefecture and the Takashima-cho Board of Education. The main excavation site was located 150 meters off the coast of coast and had a depth of 21 meters. The previously mentioned sonar technology made by Mozai had located 4 major anomalies at the bottom of the sea floor. Three wooden anchors were found here. These three anchors were found to be made of the same red oak which would have existed on mainland China in the 13th century. The wooden anchors were carbon dated and indeed found to have been from the 1281 invasion attempt. A total of 74 objects were were found in the 1994 campaign. Along with the three anchors, seventeen stone anchor stocks were found with scattered material remnants The 1995 campaign found wooden objects pottery fragments, leather, and …show more content…
It was found from the wreckage that the Mongol fleet had been composed of quickly made flat-bottomed river boats in the traditional Chinese style. The construction of sea-faring ships was viewed as a process that would have been too slow and taken too much expense. Riverboats lack the curved keel that sea faring ships possess to prevent from capsizing. The legends of the two lost fleets of Kublai Khan that set out to make both Korea and Japan parts of the Mongol Empire were proven. The thunder bombs of the ancient manuscripts were brought up and given form. They now can be tested to how effective they would have been in combat. Through finding a hull structure we can now measure how large some of the ships were. Through the plates that we find and private possessions of those who sailed we can find information on the lives of those who came before us. In short, archeology is the fact checker of history. Through scientific means we are able to recover artifacts from our past to see what was true such as the thunder bombs and what is unlikely such as the 300 foot Chinese Junks of myth. Underwater Archaeology as we saw at the Takashima site is essential because we live in a world that is majority ocean and one where the sea has served to connect us all. We have traded through the sea, migrated through the sea, and fought through the sea. Underwater archaeology is also essential because the ocean