637 (Journal Asiatique, 7e Série, XIV, 1879, bl. 308 e. v.).--W. R. Carles, A Corean monument to Manchu clemency (Journal North-China Branch R. A. S. XXIII, 1888, bl. 1).
[115] "Ever since the Manchus established themselves in China, Corea has paid regular tribute to Peking, and been a most faithful vassal.There was, until fifteen years ago (1883), absolutely no interference on the part of China in her internal administration: all she had to do was to send as tribute a few local articles of nominal value at fixed periods, for which she received a liberal return; and to apply for recognition when a demise of the Royal crown took place and a successor inherited" (Parker, China Past and Present, bl. 340).
[116] "Shogun is simply the Chinese tsiang-kün or generalissimo, being the word "Imperator" in its original military significance" (Parker, China, 1917, Glossary).
[117] Diary of Richard Cocks (Uitgave Hakluyt Society 1883) I, bl. 255, 301, 304, 311, 312, 313; en C. J. Purnell, The Log-Book of William Adams 1614-19 (Transactions of the Japan Soc. of London, XIII, 1916, bl. 178.--Het eerste Koreaansche gezantschap kwam in Japan in 1608, het tweede in 1617. "From this time down to the year 1763 Korea sent ambassadors to Japan on the occasion of the appointment of a new Shogun. Altogether such missions arrived in Japan eleven times" (I. Yamagata, Japanese-Korean relations after the Japanese invasion of Korea in the XVIth century, Transactions Korea Branch R. A. S. IV, 2 (1913) bl. 8).--Dat het optreden van een nieuwen Sjogoen niet de eenige aanleiding was voor het sturen van een gezant, blijkt uit deze aanteekening in Dagr. Japan 1643 onder 6 Mei: "Gemelte Heere [van Firando, die aan de Compagnie geld schuldig was] soude na voorgeven noch wel 4 a 5 kisten gelt betaelt gehadt hebben, ten ware den ambassadeur van Korea, die naer Jedo verreijsde om Keijserlijcke Maijt [d.w. den Sjogoen] over de geboorte van den jongen Prince geluck te wenschen, door of bij de uijterste palen langs van zij