Korea -- History; Korea -- Social life and customs
* Chō-sen Seito Shimatsŭki. A work in five volumes, giving an account
of the embassies, treaties, documents relating to the invasion of
1592–97, with an outline of the war, geographical notes, with nine maps
by Yamazaki Masanagi and Miura Katsuyoshi.
* Illustrated History of the Invasion of Chō-sen. Written by Tsuruminé
Hikoichiro. Illustrations by Hashimoto Giokuron. 20 vols. Yedo, 1853.
This popular work, besides an outline of Corean history from the
beginning, condensed from local legends and Chinese writers, details
the operations of war and diplomacy relating to Hidéyoshi’s invasion.
It is copiously illustrated with first-class wood engravings. It has
not been translated.
* Chō-sen Monogatari. A Diary and Narrative of the Japanese Military
Operations in Chō-sen during the Campaign of 1594–97, by Okoji
Hidémoto. Copied out and published in 1672, and again in 1849. This
narrative of an eye-witness was written by the author at the time of
the events described, and afterward copied by his own son and deposited
in the temple at which his ancestors worshipped. This vivid and
spirited story of the second invasion of Chō-sen by Hidéyoshi has been
translated into German by Dr. A. Pfizmaier, under the title Der Feldzug
der Japaner gegen Corea, im Jahre, 1597. 2 vols. Vienna, 1875: 4to, pp.
98; 1876: 4to, pp. 58.
** Chohitsuroku. History of the Embassies, Treaties, and War Operations
during the Japanese Invasion. This work is by a Corean author, who was
one of the ministers of the king throughout the war. It is written in
Chinese, has a map, and gives the Corean side of the history of affairs
from about 1585 to 1598. 3 vols.
* Three Severall Testimonies Concerning the mighty Kingdom of Coray,
tributary to the Kingdom of China, and bordering upon her Northeastern
Frontiers, and called by the Portugales, Coria, etc., etc., collected
out of Portugale yeerely Japonian Epistles, dated 1590, 1592, 1594. In
Hakluyt, London, 1600.
* Hidéyoshi’s Invasion of Korea. Trans. Asiatic Society of Japan. By W.
G. Aston. In these papers Mr. Aston gives the results of a study of the
campaign of 1592–97, as found in Japanese and Corean authors.
** Lettre Annuelle de Mars 1593, ecrite par le P. Pierre Gomez au P.
Claude Acquavira, general de la Compagnie de Jesus. Milan, 1597, p. 112
et suiv. In Hakluyt.
* Histoire de la Religion Chrétienne au Japon. Par Leon Pages. 2 vols.,
text and documents. Paris, 1869.
** Histoire des deux Conquerans Tartares, qui ont subjugé la Chine, par
le R. P. Pierre Joseph D’Orliens.
* Chō-sen Monogatari (Romantic Narrative of Travels in Corea), by two
Men from Mikuni, in Echizen, cast ashore in Tartary in 1645. This work
is digested in Siebold’s Archiv.
* Narrative of an Unlucky Voyage and Imprisonment in Corea, 1653–1667
In Astley’s and Pinkerton’s Voyages. By Hendrik Hamel.
* Imperial Chinese Atlas, containing maps of China and each of the
Provinces, including Shing-king and the neutral strip.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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