Jo Tae-eok

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Jo Tae-eok
조태억
Portrait of Jo Tae-eok
Left State Councillor
In office
17 August 1727 – 7 July 1728
Preceded byHong Chi-jung
Succeeded byHong Chi-jung
In office
13 March 1725 – 8 April 1725
Preceded byRyu Bong-hwi
Succeeded byJeong Ho
Right State Councillor
In office
18 November 1724 – March 1725
Preceded byRyu Bong-hwi
Succeeded byJeong Ho
Personal details
Born1675
Died5 November 1728(1728-11-05) (aged 52–53)
Korean name
Hangul
조태억
Hanja
趙泰億
Revised RomanizationJo Tae-eok
McCune–ReischauerCho T'aeŏk

Jo Tae-eok

Joseon Dynasty Korea
in the 18th century.

He was also

Joseon interests in the 8th Edo period diplomatic mission to the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.[2]

1711 mission to Japan

In 1711, King Sukjong of Joseon directed that a mission to the shogunal court of Tokugawa Ienobu should be sent to Edo.[3] This diplomatic mission functioned to the advantage of both the Japanese and the Koreans as a channel for developing a political foundation for trade.[4]

This delegation was explicitly identified by the Joseon court as a "Communication Envoy" (tongsinsa). The mission was understood to signify that relations were "normalized."[5]

The delegation arrived in the 1st year of Shōtoku, according to the Japanese calendar in use at that time.[6] Jo Tae-eok was the chief envoy of this diplomatic embassy.[3]

Recognition in the West

Jo Tae-eok's historical significance was confirmed when his mission and his name were specifically mentioned in a widely distributed history published by the Oriental Translation Fund in 1834.[6]

In the West, early published accounts of the Joseon kingdom are not extensive, but they are found in

Nihon ōdai ichiran
(published in Paris in 1834). Joseon foreign relations and diplomacy are explicitly referenced in the 1834 work.

Selected works

  • 1711 -- Dongsarok.[8]
  • 1712 -- Conversation by Writing in Jianggnan (Ganggwan pildam).[1]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Kim, Tae-Jun. (2006). Korean Travel Literature. p. 119.
  2. ^ a b Walraven, Boudewijn et al. (2007). Korea in the middle: Korean studies and area studies; Essays in Honour of Boudewijn Walraven, p. 361; Titsingh, Issac. (1934). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 416; n.b., the name Tota Yokf is a pre-Hepburn Japanese transliteration and Tchao ta ỹ is a pre-McCune–Reischauer, Korean romanization devised by Julius Klaproth and Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat in 1834.
  3. ^ a b Walraven, p. 361.
  4. ^ Walker, Brett L. "Foreign Affairs and Frontiers in Early Modern Japan: A Historiographical Essay," Early Modern Japan. Fall, 2002, pp. 48.
  5. ^ Lewis, James Bryant. (2003). Frontier contact between Chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan, pp. 21-24.
  6. ^ a b Titsingh, p. 416.
  7. ^ Vos, Ken. "Accidental acquisitions: The nineteenth-century Korean collections in the National Museum of Ethnology, Part 1," Archived 2012-06-22 at the Wayback Machine p. 6.
  8. ^ Northeast Asia History Foundation Archived 2009-03-03 at the Wayback Machine: Korea-Japan relations Archived 2009-10-28 at the Wayback Machine citing Dongsarok by Jo Tae-eok; Dongsarok by Kim Hyeon-mun; and Dongsarok by Im Su-gan.

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Preceded by Joseon–Japanese
Edo period diplomacy
8th mission

1711
Succeeded by