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| | *''Born: [[1665]]'' | | *''Born: [[1665]]'' |
| | *''Died: [[1721]]'' | | *''Died: [[1721]]'' |
| | + | *''Korean'': 任守幹 ''(Im Sugan)'' |
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| − | 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''. | + | 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]]. |
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| | + | ''Tongsa ilgi'' covers about ten months, from the embassy's departure from [[Seoul]] in 1711/5, until [[1712]]/1.<ref>Gallery labels, National Museum of Korea.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/41508915622/in/photostream/]</ref> |
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| | ==References== | | ==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. | + | *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. |
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| | [[Category:Edo Period]] | | [[Category:Edo Period]] |
| | [[Category:Foreigners]] | | [[Category:Foreigners]] |
| | [[Category:Diplomats]] | | [[Category:Diplomats]] |