"shuji matsuda" <shuji__matsuda@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> In article <EtrHa.48$7H5.69076@news.uswest.net>,
> nospam@nospam.net (Kay) wrote:
> :I believe there
> :was a brief period when Japan sent tributes to Chosun
> :during Sejong years but it did not last long.
>
> When was it?
> AFAIK, Korea sent their delegates to Edo every time Shogun succeeds,

Yes that is true...and Japan made it a point to treat them very well and to
avoid offending them.

Afterall, Korea and Japan had very close diplomatic relations (kyorin) from
Ieyasu to the 1850's, when Taewongun decided to unilaterally close off all
ties with Japan.

> but Shogun did not send any delegates to Korea.

The Chosun court continued to receive diplomatic missions from Japan
AFAIK...

> Actually, the diplomatic
> relationship before Meiji Restoration between Korea and Japan was not
> diplomatic relationship in a modern sense, because it was a indirect
> relationship through Tsushima-Han.

Hmmm...I thought it was the Tsushima So clan...unless I'm getting it mixed
up with the pre-Hideoyoshi period...

But what way do you that it wasn't a diplomatic relationship "in a modern
sense"?

Austin

BTW...we were talking about *tributes*, not missions...