Wajinden

Wajinden
Original title魏志倭人傳
LanguageClassical Chinese
GenreHistory
PublishedBetween 280 and 297
Publication placeWestern Jin dynasty
Preceded byRecords of the Three Kingdoms, volume 29 
Followed byRecords of the Three Kingdoms, volume 31 
Wajinden
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese魏志倭人傳
Simplified Chinese魏志倭人传
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWèi zhì Wōrén zhuàn
Japanese name
Kanji魏志倭人伝
Transcriptions
RomanizationGishi Wajinden

The Wajinden (倭人伝; "Treatise on the Wa People") are passages in the 30th fascicle of the Chinese history chronicle Records of the Three Kingdoms that talk about the Wa people, who would later be known as the Japanese people. It describes the mores, geography, and other aspects of the Wa, the people and inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago at the time. The Records of the Three Kingdoms was written by Chen Shou of the Western Jin dynasty at the end of the 3rd century (between the demise of Wu in 280 and 297, the year of Chen Shou's death).[1]