Jo Tae-eok

Jo Tae-eok[1] (1675–5 November 1728), also known as Cho T'aeŏk,[2] was a scholar-official and Jwauijeong of the Joseon Dynasty Korea in the 18th century.

Jo Tae-eok
조태억
Portrait of Jo Tae-eok
Left State Councillor
In office
17 August 1727 – 7 July 1728
Preceded byHong Chi-jung
Succeeded byHong Chi-jung
In office
13 March 1725 – 8 April 1725
Preceded byRyu Bong-hwi
Succeeded byJeong Ho
Right State Councillor
In office
18 November 1724 – March 1725
Preceded byRyu Bong-hwi
Succeeded byJeong Ho
Personal details
Born1675
Died5 November 1728(1728-11-05) (aged 52–53)
Korean name
Hangul
조태억
Hanja
趙泰億
Revised RomanizationJo Tae-eok
McCune–ReischauerCho T'aeŏk

He was also diplomat and ambassador, representing Joseon interests in the 8th Edo period diplomatic mission to the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.[2]

1711 mission to Japan

In 1711, King Sukjong of Joseon directed that a mission to the shogunal court of Tokugawa Ienobu should be sent to Edo.[3] This diplomatic mission functioned to the advantage of both the Japanese and the Koreans as a channel for developing a political foundation for trade.[4]

This delegation was explicitly identified by the Joseon court as a "Communication Envoy" (tongsinsa). The mission was understood to signify that relations were "normalized."[5]

The delegation arrived in the 1st year of Shōtoku, according to the Japanese calendar in use at that time.[6] Jo Tae-eok was the chief envoy of this diplomatic embassy.[3]

Recognition in the West

Jo Tae-eok's historical significance was confirmed when his mission and his name were specifically mentioned in a widely distributed history published by the Oriental Translation Fund in 1834.[6]

In the West, early published accounts of the Joseon kingdom are not extensive, but they are found in Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu (published in Paris in 1832),[7] and in Nihon ōdai ichiran (published in Paris in 1834). Joseon foreign relations and diplomacy are explicitly referenced in the 1834 work.

Selected works
  • 1711 -- Dongsarok.[8]
  • 1712 -- Conversation by Writing in Jianggnan (Ganggwan pildam).[1]

See also

Notes
  1. Kim, Tae-Jun. (2006). Korean Travel Literature. p. 119.
  2. Walraven, Boudewijn et al. (2007). Korea in the middle: Korean studies and area studies; Essays in Honour of Boudewijn Walraven, p. 361; Titsingh, Issac. (1934). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 416; n.b., the name Tota Yokf is a pre-Hepburn Japanese transliteration and Tchao ta ỹ is a pre-McCune–Reischauer, Korean romanization devised by Julius Klaproth and Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat in 1834.
  3. Walraven, p. 361.
  4. Walker, Brett L. "Foreign Affairs and Frontiers in Early Modern Japan: A Historiographical Essay," Early Modern Japan. Fall, 2002, pp. 48.
  5. Lewis, James Bryant. (2003). Frontier contact between Chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan, pp. 21-24.
  6. Titsingh, p. 416.
  7. Vos, Ken. "Accidental acquisitions: The nineteenth-century Korean collections in the National Museum of Ethnology, Part 1," Archived 2012-06-22 at the Wayback Machine p. 6.
  8. Northeast Asia History Foundation Archived 2009-03-03 at the Wayback Machine: Korea-Japan relations Archived 2009-10-28 at the Wayback Machine citing Dongsarok by Jo Tae-eok; Dongsarok by Kim Hyeon-mun; and Dongsarok by Im Su-gan.

References
  • Daehwan, Noh. "The Eclectic Development of Neo-Confucianism and Statecraft from the 18th to the 19th Century," Korea Journal (Winter 2003).
  • Kim, Tae-Jun and Kyong-hee Lee. (2006). Korean Travel Literature. Seoul: Ewha Womans University Press. ISBN 978-89-7300-602-1; ISBN 978-89-7300-698-4; OCLC 123030421
  • Lewis, James Bryant. (2003). Frontier contact between chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7007-1301-1
  • Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 84067437
  • Walker, Brett L. "Foreign Affairs and Frontiers in Early Modern Japan: A Historiographical Essay," Early Modern Japan. Fall, 2002, pp. 44–62, 124-128.
  • Walraven, Boudewijn and Remco E. Breuker. (2007). Korea in the middle: Korean studies and area studies; Essays in Honour of Boudewijn Walraven. Leiden: CNWS Publications. ISBN 90-5789-153-0; OCLC 181625480
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