"shuji matsuda" <shuji__matsuda@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bdh384$sd4bo$1@ID-37799.news.dfncis.de...
> In article <bcu4s6$ia4$4@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca>,
> "Austin P. So \(Hae Jin\)" <haejin@netinfo.ubc.caX> wrote:
> :> but Shogun did not send any delegates to Korea.
> :
> :The Chosun court continued to receive diplomatic missions from Japan
> :AFAIK...
>
> No.  It was an indirect relationship through 対馬藩 (Tsushima Han).
They
> did not go to Seul either.

Did you miss it the first time? It was the Tsushima So clan...

And you are right, except for one instance throughout the Tokugawa period,
Japanese missions were simply not allowed to go to Seoul to have audience
with the Korean court, even though this was requested many times over the
course of their diplomatic relationship. Japanese delegates, even those
representing the Shogun, were not allowed beyond the gates of Pusan because
they were not trusted.

This, of course, doesn't change the fact that Japan had sent many diplomatic
missions to Korea during the Muramachi and Tokugawa shogunates...many more
in fact than in the opposite direction. Do you not think that at the very
least the Shogun sent congratulatory and condolatory missions to Korean
kings too? Of course, they were only allowed to set foot at Pusan.

This is in contrast to the treatment of Korean emissaries to Edo...on which
occasion, if I recall correctly, these visits were often treated as national
holidays...

Austin