Xu Fu

Japanese: 徐福 - じょふく（英語表記）Xu Fu

A Taoist priest from the Qin Dynasty in China. He was also called Xu Shi. He is said to have taken several thousand boys and girls with him on an order from the First Emperor of Qin to search for the elixir of immortality on the Three Sacred Mountains in the sea. However, he was unable to find the Three Sacred Mountains and instead landed in Kishu, Japan. A monument commemorating this event still exists, and there is even a theory that the descendants of the boys and girls he took with him are the Japanese people, but these are merely later legends.

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Japanese:

中国，秦代の方士 (ほうし) 。徐市 (じょふつ) ともいう。秦の始皇帝の命で童男童女数千人を連れて，海中の三神山に不死の薬を捜しに出かけたという。しかし，三神山は発見できず，日本の紀州へ上陸した，といわれてその記念碑が現存し，連れて行った童男童女から生れた子孫が日本民族である，という説すらあるが，いずれも後世の伝説にすぎない。

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