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The Jiajing wokou raids caused extensive damage to the coast of China in the 16th century, during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor (r. 1521–67) in the Ming dynasty.The term "wokou" originally referred to Japanese pirates who crossed the sea and raided Korea and China; however, by the mid-Ming, the wokou consisted of multinational crewmen that included the Japanese and the Portuguese, but a ...
Wang Zhi was a native of She County of Huizhou (in present-day Huangshan City, Anhui).His mother was surnamed Wāng (汪) as opposed to his father's Wáng (王).Owing to the similar surnames of his parents, some sources refer to Wang Zhi by his mother's surname, thus rendering his name as Wāng Zhi 汪直 instead of Wáng Zhi 王直. [1]
14th and 16th-century wokou pirate raids One of the gates of the Chongwu Fortress on the Fujian coast (originally built c. 1384). The origin of the term wokou dates back to the 4th century, but among wokou's activities, which are divided into two academic periods, the pirates called "early wokou" were borne from the Mongol invasions of Japan.
Download QR code; Print/export ... Wokou merchant-pirates became a ... Aided by the Portuguese, pirate activities peaked between 1553 and 1561, and included a raid in ...
In May 1523, [4] trade fleets from both the Hosokawa and the Ōuchi clans arrived in Ningbo. The Ōuchi delegation, led by Kendō Sōsetsu (謙道宗設), carried the most up-to-date tally from the Zhengde Emperor and reached Ningbo before the Hosokawa delegation led by Rankō Zuisa (鸞岡端佐) and Song Suqing, who carried the outdated tallies of Zhengde's predecessor Hongzhi.
Jiajing wokou raids: A censor reports that piracy on the southeast coast is out of control. [245] 1548: February: Jiajing wokou raids: Pirates raid Ningbo and Taizhou. [245] April: Jiajing wokou raids: Ming forces attack Shuangyu but many of the ships in the harbor escape. [245] June: Mongols defeat Ming forces at Xuanfu. [246] October: Mongols ...
Download QR code; In other projects Appearance. move to sidebar hide. File; File history; File usage; Global file usage ... English: A Wokou raid at the Chinese coast ...
The wokou abandoned the ships and swam away, with some drowning due to the weight of their armor. [12] The Spanish had suffered their first casualties, among them the galley's captain Pedro Lucas. [12] The flotilla continued down the Cagayán River, finding a fleet of eighteen sampans and a Wokou fort erected inland. The Spanish fleet forced ...