Manuscript on paper, entitled on upper cover “Chōsenjin issai kakitome” 朝鮮人一切書留 “Comprehensive Report about the Korean Mission”

by 1764 Korean Mission To Japan

$4,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

22 folding leaves. Narrow, tall 8vo 343 x 123 mm. , orig. self-wrappers, orig. stitching. Japan : on upper wrapper in trans. : “28 January 1764.” During the Edo period, 12 Korean delegations were sent to Japan, mostly to congratulate a new Tokugawa shogun. The missions, which normally included 300-500 Koreans, accompanied by roughly 1500 Japanese escorts, symbolized the amicable relationship between the two nations and, in the early years, served to

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