O Yun-gyeom

O Yun-gyeom
O Yun-gyeom
Hangul 오윤겸
Hanja 吳允謙
Revised Romanization O Yun-gyeom
McCune–Reischauer O Yun'gyŏm

O Yun-gyeom (1559-1636) was a scholar-official and Prime Minister of the Joseon Dynasty Korea.

He was also diplomat and ambassador, representing Joseon interests in the 2nd Edo period diplomatic mission to the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.[1]

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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 Shogun Hidetada at Fushimi Castle.[5]

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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.

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Preceded by
Yeo U-gil
Joseon–Japanese
Edo period diplomacy
2nd mission

1617
Succeeded by
Jeong Rip