Red paint used to depict tattooing on haniwa statues is evidence for the claim that some of the people of this place were descendants of Wu Taibo of the Spring and Autumn State of Wu.
The Wei Zhi puts this place 12,000 li north of a place called Dog Slave Country. Xu Fu likely visited this place in his search for the elixir of life and may have claimed one of its mountains to be Mt. Penglai. Red paint used to depict tattooing on haniwa statues is evidence for the claim that some of the people of this place were descendants of Wu Taibo of the Spring and Autumn State of Wu. People from this place were the most distant of the Dongyi. An early exonym for this place may have etymological ties to a word for "bent down" or (*) "dwarf". Chinese sources describe a civil war in this place that ended with the accession of a sorcerer queen who only communicated through her brother. The first recorded name for this place is wa or wo and the state of Yamataikoku here was ruled by Queen Himiko. For 10 points, identify this island nation to the east of China known locally as Nihon or Nippon.
The Wei Zhi puts this place 12,000 li north of a place called Dog Slave Country.
Japan (accept Wa, Wo, Nippon, or Nihon before mentioned and any island in the archipelago)