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The total voyage from Pusan to Edo covered a distance of nearly 1,100 km each way, and usually took about nine or ten months, round-trip.<ref name=sato>Satô Kenji, ''Chôsen tsûshinshi, Ryûkyû shisetsu no Nikkô mairi'', Zuisôsha (2007), 24-27.</ref>
The total voyage from Pusan to Edo covered a distance of nearly 1,100 km each way, and usually took about nine or ten months, round-trip.<ref name=sato>Satô Kenji, ''Chôsen tsûshinshi, Ryûkyû shisetsu no Nikkô mairi'', Zuisôsha (2007), 24-27.</ref>
==Background==
Unlike missions from the Ryûkyû Kingdom, which had long engaged in relations with the [[Shimazu clan]] of [[Satsuma province]] but had never had particularly extensive relations with previous shogunates, the Korean missions can be seen as a new form within a longer history of Korean-Japanese relations, stretching back centuries. The Korean kingdom of [[Goryeo]] sent numerous missions to the [[Ashikaga shogunate]] and to the ''[[Kyushu tandai|Kyûshû tandai]]'' in the 14th century seeking aid in suppressing the pirate/raider gangs known as ''[[wako|wakô]]'', albeit with little success. The Joseon Dynasty, founded in [[1392]], established formal relations with the Ashikaga shogunate beginning in [[1404]], and some sixty missions were sent from Japan to Korea in the next century and a half; the Korean missions sent in return were known at that time as ''hôheishi'' (報聘使, K: ''bobingsa'', lit. "information mission") or ''kaireishi'' (回礼使, K: ''hoe lǐsa'', lit. "returning gratitude/etiquette mission").<ref>''Chôsen tsûshinshi to Okayama'', Okinawa Prefectural Museum, 2007, 53.</ref>
==Logistics & Ritual Performance==
==Logistics & Ritual Performance==
