Among them, the “tetsuhau” caught my eye. It was a firearm described in “Moko Shurai Ekotoba” (Mongol invasion picture stories), a two-volume set of picture scrolls by an unknown author ...

MATSUURA, Nagasaki Prefecture—Artifacts discovered on the seabed off Takashima island here were confirmed as parts of a shipwreck from the 13th century Mongol invasion of Japan. The findings ...