Yi Ye

Yi Ye was a Joseon military official who led an official visit to Tsushima in 1418.

Yi was a senior fifth rank military officer in the Five Military Commands (五衛, K: Owi), with the title of Sajik 司直. He was assigned to travel to Tsushima as an investigation official (K: kyŏng ch’agwan), and to convey King Taejong's condolences on the death earlier that year of Sô Sadashige, governor of Tsushima.

References

• Kenneth Robinson, “An Island’s Place in History: Tsushima in Japan and in Choson, 1392–1592,” Korean Studies 30 (2006), p50.