O Yun-gyeom

O Yun-gyeom
오윤겸
Left State Councillor
In office
21 October 1633 – 25 February 1636
Preceded byKim Ryu
Succeeded byHong Seo-bong
In office
12 October 1627 – 17 August 1628
Preceded bySin Heum
Succeeded byKim Ryu
Chief State Councillor
In office
16 December 1628 – 22 September 1631
Preceded bySim Heum
Succeeded byYun Bang
Right State Councillor
In office
20 November 1626 – 12 October 1627
Preceded bySim Heum
Succeeded byKim Ryu
Personal details
Born1559
Died25 February 1636(1636-02-25) (aged 76–77)
Korean name
Hangul
오윤겸
Hanja
吳允謙
Revised RomanizationO Yun-gyeom
McCune–ReischauerO Yun'gyŏm

O Yun-gyeom (1559–1636) was a Korean scholar-official and Chief State Councillor of the Joseon period.

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

Notes

  1. ^ Toby, Ronald P. (1991). State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu, p. 70.
  2. ^ Walraven, Boudewijn et al. (2007). Korea in the middle: Korean studies and area studies, p. 361.
  3. ^ Walker, Brett L. "Foreign Affairs and Frontiers in Early Modern Japan: A Historiographical Essay", Early Modern Japan. Fall, 2002, pp. 48.
  4. ^ Lewis, James Bryant. (2003). Frontier contact between Chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan, pp. 21-24.
  5. ^ 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
Preceded by Joseon–Japanese
Edo period diplomacy
2nd mission
1617 		Succeeded by