Post Reply: Korea, Japan in Arab records.. Please help?

Ibn Khordadbeh

I'm a person who's into Middle Age Arabian Records which is talking about Ancient Korean and Ancient Japan. A famous Korean Historian who studied the relationship between Ancient Korea and Arabian (and Persian) World says Ibn Khordadbeh's book "Book of Roads and Kingdoms" mentions The Ancient Korean Kingdom "Silla" was full of gold. But i doubt it because other sources say "Waqwaq" was the country with full of gold and magnificence. (Waqwaq was the Ancient Japan's name called by Middle age Arab Travelers.) As far i know, "Book of Roads and Kingdoms" mentions both Korea and Japan. I faced the limit of my searching skill, I do not know which country was the country with numerous compliments in the record. Informations from Korean sources say Silla is the country with full of gold and it's recorded by Ibn Khordadbeh, on the other hand, information from Japan and others say Ancient Japan is the country with full of gold. You can google about "Al-Shilla", "Ba-Shilla" (Both are Silla's name called by Middle Age Arab travelers.) and Waqwaq both. Goggling shows about Waqwaq far more numerous than Ba-Silla. Actually English googling shows almost none about Al-Shilla or Ba-Shilla except English Wikipedia about Silla Kingdom. This result might indicates that Waqwaq is actually the country with full with gold in the record but i doubt this too because in a recent century, Japan has received attention from Western people way more than Korea. If i could, i would have a copy of Book of Roads and Kingdoms and want to search, translate it on my own but i don't know about Arab language so here i am begging for help. Now, let me show you some translation sources by Korean, England Historians.

England Historian says ;
<div style="line-height: 16.8px;">East of China are the lands of Waqwaq, which are so rich in gold that the inhabitants make the chains for their dogs and the collars for their monkeys of this metal. They manufacture tunics woven with gold. Excellent ebony wood is found there. And again: Gold and ebony are exported from Waqwaq.