Wa倭
1Wa — more than a hundred states, and the great king of Wa is in Yamatai
倭在韓東南大海中，依山島為居，凡百餘國。自武帝滅朝鮮，使驛通於漢者三十許國，國皆稱王，世世傳統。其大倭王居邪馬臺國。樂浪郡徼，去其國萬二千里，去其西北界拘邪韓國七千餘里。其地大較在會稽東冶之東，與朱崖、儋耳相近，故其法俗多同。
Wa lies in the great sea southeast of Han, and its people live among the mountains and islands, and there are more than a hundred states in all. Since Emperor Wu destroyed Joseon, some thirty of these states have had dealings with Han through envoys and post stations. Every state calls its ruler king, and they hand the line down age after age. The great king of Wa lives in the state of Yamatai (邪馬臺國).
From the border of the commandery of Nangnang to that country is twelve thousand li, and to Guya Han (拘邪韓國) on its northwestern border is more than seven thousand li. Their land lies for the most part east of Dongye in Kuaiji, and is near to Zhuya and Dan'er, and so their laws and customs have much in common with those places.
2They mark their bodies, and they burn bones to divine — and the jisoe
土宜禾稻、麻紵、蠶桑，知織績為縑布。出白珠、青玉。其山有丹土。氣溫腝，冬夏生菜茹。無牛馬虎豹羊鵲。其兵有矛、楯、木弓，竹矢或以骨為鏃。男子皆黥面文身，以其文左右大小別尊卑之差。其男衣皆橫幅結束相連。女人被髮屈紒，衣如單被，貫頭而著之；並以丹朱坋身，如中國之用粉也。有城柵屋室。父母兄弟異處，唯會同男女無別。飲食以手，而用籩豆。俗皆徒跣，以蹲踞為恭敬。人性嗜酒。多壽考，至百餘歲者甚衆。國多女子，大人皆有四五妻，其餘或兩或三。女人不淫不妒。又俗不盜竊，少爭訟。犯法者沒其妻子，重者滅其門族。其死停喪十餘日，家人哭泣，不進酒食，而等類就歌舞為樂。灼骨以卜，用決吉凶。行來度海，令一人不櫛沐，不食肉，不近婦人，名曰“持衰”。若在塗吉利，則雇以財物；如病疾遭害，以為持衰不謹，便共殺之。
The soil suits rice and hemp and ramie and silkworms and mulberries, and they know how to weave and spin and make silk and cloth. White pearls and blue jade come from there, and in their mountains there is red earth. The air is warm, and greens grow in winter and in summer alike. There are no oxen or horses, no tigers or leopards, no sheep or magpies. For weapons they have spears and shields and bows of wood, and arrows of bamboo, and some of them have heads of bone.
The men all tattoo their faces and mark their bodies, and by the marks, left and right and great and small, they tell the difference between high and low. The clothing of the men is all of widths bound crosswise and joined together. The women loosen their hair and bend it into a knot, and their clothing is like a single coverlet, which they put on by passing the head through it. They smear their bodies with red earth as well, as powder is used in China.
They have stockades and houses. Parents and brothers live in separate places, but when they gather and meet they make no difference between men and women. They eat with their hands, and yet they use the ritual vessels (籩豆). By custom they all go barefoot, and they take squatting for a mark of respect. The people love wine. Many live long, and those who reach a hundred years and more are very many.
There are many women in the country, and the great men all have four or five wives, and the rest have two or three. The women are not licentious and not jealous. By their custom, besides, there is no stealing, and there are few quarrels and lawsuits. The wife and children of one who breaks the law are taken, and in grave cases his whole clan is destroyed.
When a man dies they keep the body more than ten days, and the people of the house weep and take no wine or food, while those of his company go and sing and dance and make merry. They burn bones and divine with them to settle good fortune and ill. When they go across the sea and back they have one man neither comb nor wash his hair, nor eat meat, nor come near a woman, and he is called the jisoe (持衰). If all goes well on the way they pay him with goods, but if there is sickness or harm they say that the jisoe was not careful, and they kill him together on the spot.
3The state of Waeno comes to court and Emperor Guangwu gives it a seal
建武中元二年，倭奴國奉貢朝賀，使人自稱大夫，倭國之極南界也。光武賜以印綬。安帝永初元年，倭國王帥升等獻生口百六十人，願請見。
In the second year of Jianwu Zhongyuan the state of Waeno (倭奴國) brought tribute and came to court with congratulations, and its envoy called himself a grand officer (大夫). It is the farthest southern border of the country of Wa. Emperor Guangwu gave them a seal with its cord. In the first year of Yongchu under Emperor An, Suseung (帥升), king of Wa, and others offered a hundred and sixty people they had taken alive, and asked to be received.
4Himiko — she did not marry, though her years grew, and she served the way of the spirits
桓、靈閒，倭國大亂，更相攻伐，歷年無主。有一女子名曰卑彌呼，年長不嫁，事鬼神道，能以妖惑衆，於是共立為王。侍婢千人，少有見者，唯有男子一人給飲食，傳辭語。居處宮室樓觀城柵，皆持兵守衛。法俗嚴峻。
Between Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling the country of Wa fell into great disorder, and they attacked and struck one another by turns, and for years there was no ruler. There was one woman named Himiko (卑彌呼). Her years grew but she did not marry, and she served the way of the spirits and could bewitch the people with strange arts, and so they set her up together as king. A thousand serving women waited on her, and few had seen her; only one man brought her food and drink and carried her words. The palace where she lived, with its towers and its stockade, was all guarded by men holding weapons. Their laws and customs were stern and harsh.
5The states of Kuna and Juyu, and the states of Na and Heukchi
自女王國東度海千餘里至拘奴國，雖皆倭種，而不屬女王。自女王國南四千餘里至朱儒國，人長三四尺。自朱儒東南行船一年，至裸國、黑齒國，使驛所傳，極於此矣。
Going east from the queen's country and crossing more than a thousand li of sea one comes to the state of Kuna (拘奴國). They are all of the stock of Wa, but they do not belong to the queen. Going south from the queen's country more than four thousand li one comes to the state of Juyu (朱儒國), where the people are three or four feet tall. Sailing southeast from Juyu for a year one comes to the state of Na (裸國) and the state of Heukchi (黑齒國), and what envoys and post stations report ends here.
6The island where Xu Fu is said to have gone
會稽海外有東鯷人，分為二十餘國。又有夷洲及澶洲。傳言秦始皇遣方士徐福將童男女數千人入海，求蓬萊神仙不得，徐福畏誅不敢還，遂止此洲，世世相承，有數萬家。人民時至會稽市。會稽東冶縣人有入海行遭風，流移至澶洲者。所在絕遠，不可往來。
Beyond the sea of Kuaiji there are the Dongti people (東鯷人), who are divided into more than twenty states. There are Yizhou (夷洲) and Danzhou (澶洲) besides. It is handed down that the First Emperor of Qin sent Xu Fu (徐福), a master of the arts, into the sea with several thousand boys and girls to seek the immortals of Penglai, and he did not find them; and Xu Fu feared he would be put to death and dared not go back, and so he stayed on that island, and they have carried on there age after age until there are tens of thousands of houses. The people of that place come at times to the market at Kuaiji. There was a man of the county of Dongye in Kuaiji who went out on the sea and met a wind and drifted as far as Danzhou. These places are very far off, and there is no going back and forth to them.