근세 류큐사절･조선사절의 일본･중국 파견과 교류

Abstract

Joseon Dynasty and the Ryukyu dispatched large-scale missions directly to China and Japan, playing a central role in the East Asian Exchange Network. Joseon envoys dispatched to Japan indirectly obtained information about the Ryukyus through Japanese officials and intellectuals, while Joseon envoys to Beijing attended ordinances and feasts organized by the emperor and obtained information about the Ryukyus in interactions with the Ryukyu envoys through poetry creation and ritual practices. The Ryukyu envoys contacted Joseon and other foreign envoys in Beijing to collect foreign information, and delivered the collected information to Satsuma to show off their presence in Japan. With the dispatch of the Joseon and Ryukyu envoys, an exchange network and information network were formed in East Asia, and the information they obtained could be spread to East Asia through the bases of Beijing (北京), Hanseong (漢城), Edo (江戸), and Naha (那覇). In addition, the exchange between the Joseon and Ryukyu envoys in Beijing means that the stage of Korean-Japanese exchange history in modern times was not limited to the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago, but was developed on an East Asian scale including mainland China. Through this, it is believed that a new perspective will be provided on the history of Korea-Japan exchanges and East Asian exchanges.