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This picture from over 200 years ago depicts a UFO on a beach in eastern Japan. It states that an attractive woman, aged 18 to 20, was aboard and greeted those on the beach while holding a strange box in her hand. This woman from Hyōryūki-shū described as around 18 to 20 years of age, well-dressed, and beautiful. Japan is a country with one of the oldest cultures that has kept the greatest secrets of previous civilizations. The island country has legends about the underwater ship (USOs) which often relates to Masuda-no-Iwafune, an 800-ton monolith at Asuka Park. The story begins in 1803, during the Edo period when Japanese fishermen dragged an Underwater Submerged Object off the shore of the eastern coast of the Hitachi province. According to legends, the fishermen had encountered a Utsuro-Bune, a decorated hollow-ship, and an alive foreign lady inside it. The ship was said to be six meters wide and almost four meters high, and the inside walls had symbols similar to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. A thread!
The lady inside the ship had pale skin and red hair. She spoke in an unknown language that fishermen could not understand and carried a box. The story about her and the ship has been mentioned in three different manuscripts: Toen shōsetsu (1825), Hyōryū kishū (1835) and Ume-no-chiri (1844). Firstly, there was a hypothesis that it was an edited story about the wreck of a Russian whaling ship but in the official documents, there is no description of cases of wrecks. According to professor Kazuo Tanaka, he came across to Utsuro-Bune after learning American UFO stories and Japanese legends where he saw flying saucer images in the text of the Edo period.
At first, Tanaka thought it was an edited story about the wreck of a Russian whaling ship, but he could not find any reference in the official documents to support his theory. As he started digging, he found more information and materials about Utsuro-Bune. According to him, he found 11 such documents that tell the tale of Utsuro-Bune from the Hitachi province. Out of them, two described the legends that allegedly that took place in 1803: Mito bunsho and Banke bunsho. From “Mito bunsho,” Tanaka found an illustration of a woman who was in similar clothing to that of a Buddhist statue of Shofukuji at the Shōfukuji temple in Kamisu. The document credits a legend about Princess Konjiki (Golden Princess), who came from India to Hitachi province in a cocoon-shaped boat via sea. The locals helped to gain her health back and she repaid them by teaching sericulture. Below is a Comparison of the Utsuro-bune symbols to those from RAF Bentwaters and Roswell
While another document Banke bunsh tells that the exact location of the ship where it had arrived. According to a map produced by famous cartographer Inō Tadataka, it came ashore of Hitachihara Sharihama, now Hasaki Shirahama in Kamisu. A former employee at British Government’s Ministry of Defence and UFO researcher Nick Pope said: “This craft was likened to the shape of a Japanese incense burner. It is almost literally a flying disk, a flying saucer. On the outside of this craft were multiple small metal plates, not too dissimilar to heat-resistant tiles that you’d find, say, on a space shuttle.”
According to some sources, an 800-ton monolithic, carved from a single piece of granite, known as Masuda-no-iwafune at Asuka Park in Japan resembles the description of the Utsuro-Bune. It has a length of 36 feet, width 26 feet, and 15 feet tall. The rock also has two three-foot square holes. Dr. John Syrigos writes that the monolith could be caved in “commemoration of the building of Masuda Lake, which was once located nearby (now drained and part of Kashiwara City).” Other theories suggested that it was the astronomical observatory in ancient times or a tomb of the royal family. Basically, Masuda is the name of a region and iwafune means “rock ship.” Some believe that the rock ship arrived straight from the heavens to the Earth. Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio A. Tsoukalos believed that the Asuka Park monolith could be a sky boat, represented in Japanese mythology. He said: “I guess with the combination of those mythologies of celestial beings, this could be some type of representation of one of those flying vehicles that our ancestors perhaps witnessed.”
Another popular theory is that it was used as an astronomical observation point. Evidence for this perspective comes from the ridge line across the top of the rock which runs parallel to the mountain ridge in Asuka and lines up with the sunset on a certain day of the year called “spring doyou entry”, which occurs 13 days after the sectional solar term ‘Pure Brightness’. This day was important in the lunar calendar and for early Japanese agriculture as it signaled the beginning of the agricultural season. However, this perspective has been largely dismissed by scholars who do not recognize it as an ancient astronomical observing station. Some historians believe that the rock is just the remains of a tomb that was designed for members of the royal family. However, this does not explain the unusual features, such as the square holes on top, nor have any bodies been found. To account for this, some have suggested it was intended as the entrance of a tomb but was unfinished. Interestingly, Masuda no iwafune bears a similarity to another stone block in Japan – the Ishi-no-Hoden megalith, which is situated in Takasago city. The Ishi-no-Hoden megalith measures 6.45m (21.16ft) x 5.7 m (18.70 ft) x 5.45m (17.88 ft) and has similar ridges on the sides but without any visible holes – although some suggest that they are beneath the trees on the top of the rock. Today, Ishi-no-Hoden is a shrine dedicated to the Shinto god Oshiko Jinja, but no one knows who originally built it and why. Very little is known about the Masuda no iwafune stone carving and definitive evidence is still lacking with regards to who built it and why. The fact that there are so many other stone slabs and structures in the area suggests that the region was inhabited prior to the Tumulus period, but again, there is no proof to support this perspective. In the end, the true origin and purpose of these enigmatic features of ancient Japan may be lost to the pages of history. ancient-origins.net