해남 선비 김여휘의 유구 표류와 송환 경로(1662~1663년)

Abstract

In 1662, thirty-two Koreans, including Kim Yeowhi, who was a classical scholar in Haeman County, and Jeju islanders, encountered an accident at sea and their ship drifted to Amami Oshima island, in Ryukyu. They were rescued by Ryukyuan islanders on the fifth day of the tenth month(or November 15 in the Gregorian calendar), after having departed for Haenam, their home town, from the Byeoldo port in Jeju island on the twenty fourth of the ninth month(or November 4 in the Gregorian calendar), but having been set adrift near Chuja island by a northwester. Four people among them died of thirst before the group was rescued. These twenty-eight survivors were sent from Ryukyu to Satsuma domain in southern Kyushu in Japan, and then to Tsushima domain after the Japanese government conducted an investigation in Nagasaki. Kim Yeowhi and his fellow passengers were immediately interrogated upon their arrival in Tsushima on the twenty-seventh day of the fifth month(or July 2 in the Gregorian calendar) in 1663. They returned to Joseon, at the Busan port, on the fifth day of the sixth month(or August 7 in the Gregorian calendar), after clearing the investigations in Japan. They also had to undergo questioning at the Japan House(K. Waegwan), a compound where Tsushima islanders resided, in Busan and investigation by the Korean government after being delivered to Busan military base and the Dongnae County office. Kim Yeowhi and his colleagues retuned to Haenam County, on the twenty-fifth day of the seventh month(or August 27 in the Gregorian calendar). However, Kim's wife had died on the seventeenth day of the fourth month(or May 23 in the Gregorian calendar). This maritime accident is useful for comparative study with the first voyage of An Yong-bok to Japan, which related to the territory dispute over Ulleung island between Korea and Japan in 1663, and the drifting of Mun Sun-deuk to Amami Oshima in 1802.