Nguồn chính:

• Zheng Ruohui, Zhouhai Tubian (籌海図編)
• Hŭi-gyŏng Song, Shōsuke Murai Rōshōdō Nihon kōroku: Chōsen shisetsu no mita chūsei Nihon (老松堂日本行錄: 朝鮮使節の見た中世日本) Iwanami Shoten, Tōkyō, 1987. ISBN 9784003345412

Nguồn phụ:

• So, Kwan-wai. Japanese Piracy in Ming China During the sixteenth Century. Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, 1975. ISBN 0870131796
• Boxer, C.R. "Piracy in the South China Sea", History Today, XXX, 12 (December), p. 40-44.
• Stephen Turnbull "Samurai: The World of the Warrior" Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2003, p. 155-157. ISBN 1841767409
• Boxer, Charles Ralph; Pereira, Galeote; Cruz, Gaspar da; Rada, Martín de (1953), South China in the sixteenth century: being the narratives of Galeote Pereira, Fr. Gaspar da Cruz, O.P. [and] Fr. Martín de Rada, O.E.S.A. (1550-1575), Issue 106 of Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Printed for the Hakluyt Society (Includes an English translation of Galeote Pereira's report and Gaspar da Cruz' book, with C.R. Boxer's comments)