yang-chou

Updated: July 24, 2026

Their masts were like a dense forest of bamboo." *Yamato enemies. The pirates inscribed on their sails the legend Hachiman Dai-bosatsu. Further records show that in 1556 the pirates entered Yang-chou, looted and burned the city; that in 1559 they attacked Chekiang; that in 1560, they made their way to Taitsang, and thence pushed on towards Shanghai, Sungteh, etc., looting towns almost daily.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era