Jo Tae-eok[1] (Korean: 조태억; 1675 – 5 November 1728), also known as Cho T'aeŏk,[2] was a scholar-official and Jwauijeong of the Joseon Dynasty Korea in the 18th century.
Jo Tae-eok 조태억 | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of Jo Tae-eok | |
| Left State Councillor | |
| In office 17 August 1727 – 7 July 1728 | |
| Preceded by | Hong Chi-jung |
| Succeeded by | Hong Chi-jung |
| In office 13 March 1725 – 8 April 1725 | |
| Preceded by | Ryu Bong-hwi |
| Succeeded by | Jeong Ho |
| Right State Councillor | |
| In office 18 November 1724 – March 1725 | |
| Preceded by | Ryu Bong-hwi |
| Succeeded by | Jeong Ho |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1675 |
| Died | 5 November 1728 (aged 52–53) |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 조태억 |
| Hanja | 趙泰億 |
| Revised Romanization | Jo Tae-eok |
| McCune–Reischauer | Cho T'aeŏk |
He was also diplomat and ambassador, representing Joseon interests in the 8th Edo period diplomatic mission to the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.[2]
1711 mission to Japan edit
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 edit
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 Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu (published in Paris in 1832),[7] and in Nihon ōdai ichiran (published in Paris in 1834). Joseon foreign relations and diplomacy are explicitly referenced in the 1834 work.
Selected works edit
See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ a b Kim, Tae-Jun. (2006). Korean Travel Literature. p. 119.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Walraven, 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.
- ^ a b Titsingh, p. 416.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
References edit
- Daehwan, Noh. "The Eclectic Development of Neo-Confucianism and Statecraft from the 18th to the 19th Century," Korea Journal (Winter 2003).
- Kim, Tae-Jun and Kyong-hee Lee. (2006). Korean Travel Literature. Seoul: Ewha Womans University Press. ISBN 978-89-7300-602-1; ISBN 978-89-7300-698-4; OCLC 123030421
- Lewis, James Bryant. (2003). Frontier contact between chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7007-1301-1
- Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 84067437
- 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