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Why? When contemporary Roman emperors and their entourage, scholars, clerics and pilgrims could travel from Yorkshire to Paris, Rome, Constantinople and Ctesiphon, why wouldn't small, precious goods and coins?
It's theoretically possible of course with the silk road, but certain items followed known routes. Precious metals are more likely to be melted down into local currencies or other objects or to be buried/lost en route. The further east you go the less likely they are to make it.
The surprise also probably comes from Japan's proclivity for seclusion. It's mostly known to have traded with China and Korea - and in fact raided. The Chinese called them "dwarf pirates" during this era.
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