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In 1784, under the big stone, a peasant found a gold seal at Shiganoshima Island of Northern Kyusyu. Nanmei KAMEI, a scholor of that age have read the inscription of this seal as “漢委奴国王”, and he empha...sized this important discovery, because in the "History of Later Han", it was read that a king of Wa-Na country send the delegates to Han Empire, and a seal was given to the king from Han. Now it is preserved in the Tokyo National Museum by favor of Marquis KURODA. Fortunately we could observe and measure the seal in the Fukuoka Bunka Kaikan where this seal was shown in the exhibition of "Ancient Fine Art of Japan". in 1966. The height of this seal is 2.236cm, average length of four edge is 2.347cm and weight is 108.729 g. The button of this seal was copied from the shape of serpent. We know that the shape the seals-button of Northern nomadic people given from Han Empire were camel, and those of Southern people were serpent, by the remarkable animals of suitable climate. It is very important that the button of gold seal of Wa-na country is same with those of the gold seal of king of Shan Country “滇王之印” of Former Han found at Shi-Shai-Shan tombs of Yiinnan district of South China. The measure of 2.34 cm represents I sun of Han dynasty. It is same measure with te bronze scale of 6 years of jian-chu 建和6年(A. D 81) of Later Han. We can not doubt this gold seal, and also we can identify this gold seal as those that Guang-wu-ti 光武帝 of Later Han had presented to a king Wa-Na country in A. D 57.show more
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