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USEFUL MINERALS AND METALLURGY
OF THE JAPANESE.
LEAD AND SILVER.
C.
By Dr. GEERTS.
Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on the
23rd December, 1874.
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LITERATURE: Kaempfer’s History of Japan, I Book, Chap. VIII. Stan. Julien et Champion.—Industries, &c., page 40. Geerts.—Japan in 1871. “Gids,” No. 8 and 9, 1872. Japanese Technology.—San-kaï mei-butsu Dzu-ku-wai, 1st Vol. Japanese Mineralogy.—Seki-hin-san-sho-ko. Ko-sin-sho-ran-sen, or short indication of the chief Ore bearing mountains.
Japanese history does not mention the year when lead (yen namari, Syn. Koku yen, u-jaku) was obtained for the first time in Japan. Silver-ore was discovered accidentally in the year 667, A.D., at Tsu-shima, during the digging of the foundations of a new castle, named Kanedono-shizo;[1] this ore produced the first Japanese silver metal in the year 674.[2]
- ↑ Hoffmann: Japan’s Bezüge mit der Koraïschen Halbinsel und mit China pag. 133 (translation out of Nippon ki XXVII. 10 Z. Y.) edited in Siebold’s Nippon Archif VII.
- ↑ Hoffmann: ibidem pag. 133 (transl. out of Nippon ki and Wan-kan-nen-ki) and Wa-nen-ki oder geschichtstatuten von Japan pag 40, published in Siebold’s Nippon Archif.
