Conyac で依頼された翻訳結果を公開

People are talking about annular eclipse and transit of Venus across the sun, which will happen on June 6th. I cannot help to think about "Gold", the word that describes both these incidents in Japanese. According to Shoku Nihongi (second of the six classical Japanese history texts), gold was first discovered in Mutsu country, current Miyagi prefecture, in 749. Seimu Emperor at the time had changed the name of era to Tempyou-kampou era in order to express his excitement of this discovery. It is well-known that long year later Marco Polo introduced Japan to the world as "Golden country, Zipang". This is not just a legend. In fact, the reason for the Mongolian attack, which happened twice, was "Gold" in Japan.