The 1910 image shows: “Japanese riders on guard watch during the Mongolian incident in 1281 – from a contemporary hand-painted scroll.” The piece is in a collection in Tokyo. The Mongols launched a second expedition in the summer of 1281 — this time much larger than the first — but were once again thwarted by weather: a terrible typhoon, in fact, that erupted and damaged the Mongol fleet enough to force them to abort the mission.

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