Pyŏn Hyomun

King Sejong dispatched a diplomatic mission to Japan in 1443, which was the 25th year of King Sejong's rule. This embassy to court of Ashikaga Yoshimasa in Kamakura was led by Pyŏn Hyomun. Its purpose was to offer condolences on the death of Ashikaga Yoshinori and congratulations on the accession of Ashikaga Yoshikatsu.Kang, Etsuko H. (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=4f0jnNzdRb4C&pg=PA275&dq= Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century, p. 275]; Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP342&dq= Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 342.]

The Japanese hosts may have construed this mission as tending to confirm a Japanocentric world order.Arano Yasunori (2005). [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=316361 "The Formation of A Japanocentric World Order,"] The International Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 2, pp 185-216. Pyŏn Hyomun's actions were more narrowly focused in negotiating protocols for Joseon-Japan diplomatic relations.

Korean diplomatic efforts produced an agreement in 1443, also called the "Kakitsu treaty" after the Japanese era name (nengō) which identify the years 1441 through 1444. The agreement regularized an initial plan for mitigating the damage caused by pirates. The bilateral agreement assigned the responsibility for monitoring ships from Japan en route to Korea. The Sō clan of Tsushima han (Tsushima Island) were given the right to license ships sailing west beyond Tsushima; and this also encompassed the opportunity to profit from whatever fees the Sō might charge.Hall, John Whitney. (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=6RBXXJixf-sC&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&dq= The Cambridge History of Japan: Early Modern Japan, p. 244.]

PyŏnHyo-mun's historical significance was confirmed when his mission was specifically mentioned in a widely distributed history published by the Oriental Translation Fund in 1834.Titsingh, p. 342.

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),Vos, Ken. [http://www.rmv.nl/publicaties/11Koreavroeg/e/accidentalacquisitions.pdf "Accidental acquisitions: The nineteenth-century Korean collections in the National Museum of Ethnology, Part 1,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622021232/http://www.rmv.nl/publicaties/11Koreavroeg/e/accidentalacquisitions.pdf |date=2012-06-22 }} p. 6. and in Nihon ōdai ichiran (published in Paris in 1834). Joseon foreign relations and diplomacy are explicitly referenced in the 1834 work.

• Joseon diplomacy
• Joseon missions to Japan
• Joseon tongsinsa

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• Daehwan, Noh. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110614035130/http://www.ekoreajournal.net/upload/html/HTML43412.html "The Eclectic Development of Neo-Confucianism and Statecraft from the 18th to the 19th Century,"] Korea Journal (Winter 2003).
• Kang, Etsuko Hae-jin. (1997). Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Basingstoke, Hampshire; Macmillan. {{ISBN|978-0-312-17370-8}}; {{OCLC|243874305}}
• Kang, Jae-eun and Suzanne Lee. (2006). The Land of Scholars : Two Thousand Years of Korean Confucianism. Paramus, New Jersey: Homa & Sekey Books. {{ISBN|978-1-931907-37-8}}; {{OCLC|60931394}}
• Hall, John Whitney. (1997). The Cambridge History of Japan: Early Modern Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-521-22355-3}}; {{OCLC|174552485}}
• Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, [https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran Annales des empereurs du Japon.] Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84067437?referer=di&ht=edition OCLC 84067437]

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• [http://www.tongsinsa.com/ Joseon Tongsinsa Cultural Exchange Association {{in lang|ko}}]; [https://archive.today/20121205064047/http://tongsinsa.com/japan/ {{in lang|ja}}]

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