The kingdom of Wa倭國
1A country on hills and islands
倭國者，古倭奴國也。去京師一萬四千里，在新羅東南大海中，依山島而居。東西五月行，南北三月行。世與中國通。其國，居無城郭，以木爲柵，以草爲屋。四面小島五十餘國，皆附屬焉。其王姓阿每氏，置一大率，檢察諸國，皆畏附之。設官有十二等。
Wa is the old country of Wano. It lies fourteen thousand li from the capital, in the great sea southeast of Silla, and the people live leaning on the hills and the islands. From east to west it is five months' journey, from north to south three months' journey. Age after age it has had dealings with China. In that country they dwell with no walled towns; they make their fences of wood and their roofs of grass. On all four sides are small islands, more than fifty countries, and all of them are attached to it. The king's surname is Ame (阿每氏). He has set up an ildaesol (一大率) to inspect the several countries, and they all fear him and cleave to him. The offices they have set up are twelve grades.
2The customs of Wa
其訴訟者，匍匐而前。地多女少男。頗有文字，俗敬佛法。並皆跣足，以幅布蔽其前後。貴人戴錦帽，百姓皆椎髻，無冠帶。婦人衣純色裙，長腰繻，束髮於後，佩銀花，長八寸，左右各數枝，以明貴賤等級。衣服之制，頗類新羅。
Those who bring a suit go forward crawling on the ground. In that land women are many and men are few. They have writing in some measure, and in their custom they revere the law of the Buddha. All of them go barefoot, and they cover themselves before and behind with a width of cloth. Men of rank wear a cap of brocade, and the common people all wear a mallet topknot, with no cap and no belt. The women wear a skirt of a single color and a jacket long at the waist. They bind their hair behind and wear a silver flower eight chon long, with several sprays on the left and on the right, to make plain the grades of high and low. The fashion of their clothing is much like that of Silla.
3Gao Biaoren fails in courtesy
貞觀五年，遣使獻方物。太宗矜其道遠，勑所司無令歲貢，又遣新州刺史高表仁持節往撫之。表仁無綏遠之才，與王子爭禮，不宣朝命而還。至二十二年，又附新羅奉表，以通起居。
In the fifth year of Zhenguan they sent an envoy and offered the products of their land. Taizong pitied them for the length of the road, and ordered the offices concerned not to make them send tribute every year. He also sent Gao Biaoren, the prefect of Xinzhou, to go with the tally and comfort them. Biaoren had no gift for settling distant peoples. He quarreled over ceremony with the king's son, and came back without proclaiming the command of the court. In the twenty-second year they again sent up a memorial in company with Silla, to ask after the emperor's health.