광해군대 대일외교의 독자성 문제와 朝·明관계

Abstract

This study is about independency of diplomacy to Japan in Gwang’hae-gun’s Period and Ming’s influence on it. And reviewed under the multilateral power relations, how Joseon formulated diplomatic justifications and used them strategically the presence of a third party, Ming in the diplomacy to Japan, and the presence of a third party, Japan in the diplomacy to Ming Dynasty. After the Imjin War, for a while, the Ming’s intervention in Joseon’s diplomacy to Japan was continuing through the Liaodong’ military officers. In relation to the Ming, Joseon strived to secure independence in diplomatic relations with Japan. Ming's broadscale diplomatic interference in 1612, caused by Ming’s doubts about the relationship between Joseon and Japan, became a turning point. At that time, Joseon actively solved the Ming’s doubts and relieved the burden of diplomacy to Ming Dynasty over the relationship between Joseon and Japan. On the other hand, toward Japan Joseon took a strategy to exaggerate that the influence of Ming’s is stilln, and the means of ‘an ass in lion’s skin’ were used as a diplomatic cause. As the confrontation between Ming and Jurchen(Qing) accelerated, the importance of Ming’s presence in the diplomacy to Japan was inevitably falling. On the other hand, the diplomatic pressure from the Ming Dynasty, such as the request for dispatch troops, was increased. Now, Joseon exaggerated the concerns about the possibility of Japan’s provocation at the report on Japanese political situation. Joseon insisted so-called ‘備倭論(diplomatic justification that prepare for the provocation of Japan)’ that Joseon should concentrate on provocation of Japan, for the security of Joseon and Ming.