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| + | *''Korean'': 任守幹 ''(Im Sugan)'' | ||
Im Sugan was a [[Joseon Dynasty]] Korean scholar-official, and served as vice-envoy on a [[Korean embassies to Edo|mission to Edo]] in [[1711]]. He wrote a record of this mission, entitled ''Tongsa ilgi'' ("Journal of the Voyage East"), as well as ''Kanggwan P’iltam'' (J: ''Kôkan hitsudan'', “Brush Conversation at the Riverbank), a collection of notes on conversations with [[Arai Hakuseki]]. | Im Sugan was a [[Joseon Dynasty]] Korean scholar-official, and served as vice-envoy on a [[Korean embassies to Edo|mission to Edo]] in [[1711]]. He wrote a record of this mission, entitled ''Tongsa ilgi'' ("Journal of the Voyage East"), as well as ''Kanggwan P’iltam'' (J: ''Kôkan hitsudan'', “Brush Conversation at the Riverbank), a collection of notes on conversations with [[Arai Hakuseki]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 10:39, 4 June 2020
Im Sugan was a Joseon Dynasty Korean scholar-official, and served as vice-envoy on a mission to Edo in 1711. He wrote a record of this mission, entitled Tongsa ilgi ("Journal of the Voyage East"), as well as Kanggwan P’iltam (J: Kôkan hitsudan, “Brush Conversation at the Riverbank), a collection of notes on conversations with Arai Hakuseki.
Tongsa ilgi covers about ten months, from the embassy's departure from Seoul in 1711/5, until 1712/1.[1]
References
- Lee Jeong Mi, "Cultural Expressions of Tokugawa Japan and Choson Korea: An Analysis of the Korean Embassies in the Eighteenth Century," PhD dissertation, University of Toronto (2008), 82, 93-95.
