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- Title
An Island's Place in History: Tsushima in Japan and in Chosŏn, 1392-1592.
- Authors
Robinson, Kenneth R.
- Abstract
The proximity of the Japanese island of Tsushima to the Korean peninsula made plausible the views among Korean elites in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that the island had been Korean territory in the historical past. The Chosǒn court expressed historical and contemporary possession of Tsushima/Taema-do through assertions of the island's Korean history, dispatch of officials bearing domestic administration posts, and cartography. The court's claims neither challenged the Muromachi bakufu nor threatened the authority of the governor of Tsushima, who encouraged treatment of the island as Korean territory as well as Japanese territory. The incomplete insertion of royal power into the island highlights different forms of sovereignty. In the early Chosǒn period, the area was encompassed within the king's territorial sovereignty. The jurisdictional Chosǒn composed a different space than the territorial. Within this gap between the two Chosǒns can be seen underappreciated features of Korean history and Chosǒn society.
- Subjects
TSUSHIMA Island (Japan); JAPAN; HISTORICAL geography; LITERATURE &; history; HISTORICAL analysis; ISLANDS -- History
- Publication
Korean Studies, 2006, Vol 30, Issue 1, p38
- ISSN
0145-840X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ks.2006.0021