O Yun-gyeom
O Yun-gyeom (1559–1636) was a scholar-official and Chief State Councillor of the Joseon Dynasty Korea.
O Yun-gyeom | |
Hangul | 오윤겸 |
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Hanja | 吳允謙 |
Revised Romanization | O Yun-gyeom |
McCune–Reischauer | O Yun'gyŏm |
He was also diplomat and ambassador, representing Joseon interests in the 2nd Edo period diplomatic mission to the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.[1]
1617 mission to Japan
O Yun-gyeom was the leader selected by the Gwanghaegun of Joseon to head a mission to Japan in 1617.[2] The diplomatic mission functioned to the advantage of both the Japanese and the Koreans as a channel for developing a political foundation for trade.[3]
This delegation was explicitly identified by the Joseon court as a "Reply and Prisoner Repatriation Envoy" (회답겸쇄환사, 回答兼刷還使). The mission was not understood to signify that relations were "normalized."[4]
The Joseon monarch's ambassador and retinue traveled only as far as Kyoto, where the delegation was received by Shōgun Hidetada at Fushimi Castle.[5]
See also
- Yeonguijeong
- Joseon diplomacy
- Joseon missions to Japan
- Joseon tongsinsa
Notes
- Toby, Ronald P. (1991). State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu, p. 70.
- Walraven, Boudewijn et al. (2007). Korea in the middle: Korean studies and area studies, p. 361.
- Walker, Brett L. "Foreign Affairs and Frontiers in Early Modern Japan: A Historiographical Essay", Early Modern Japan. Fall, 2002, pp. 48.
- Lewis, James Bryant. (2003). Frontier contact between Chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan, pp. 21-24.
- Toby, p. 105 n16.
References
- Daehwan, Noh. "The Eclectic Development of Neo-Confucianism and Statecraft from the 18th to the 19th Century", Korea Journal (Winter 2003).
- Lewis, James Bryant. (2003). Frontier contact between chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-700-71301-1
- Toby, Ronald P. (1991). State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1951-3
- Walker, Brett L. "Foreign Affairs and Frontiers in Early Modern Japan: A Historiographical Essay", Early Modern Japan. Fall, 2002, pp. 44–62, 124–128.
- Walraven, Boudewijn and Remco E. Breuker. (2007). Korea in the Middle: Korean Studies and Area Studies; Essays in Honour of Boudewijn Walraven. Leiden: CNWS Publications. ISBN 90-5789-153-0; OCLC 181625480
External links
- O Yun-gyeom at Encyclopedia of Korean Culture (in Korean)
- Joseon Tongsinsa Cultural Exchange Association (in Korean); (in Japanese)
- 조선통신사연구 (Journal of Studies in Joseon Tongsinsa) (in Korean)
Preceded by Yeo U-gil |
Joseon–Japanese Edo period diplomacy 2nd mission 1617 |
Succeeded by Jeong Rip |