戊辰(1748) 통신사행의 외교적 현안과 관련 회화

Abstract

This paper reviewed various diplomatic issues between Joseon and Japan regarding the dispatch of Korean envoys requested to Joseon in February 1747, when Yieshige became the 9th shogun with abdication of Yoshimune, the 8th shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1745. At that time, former shogun survived, and the prince had already been established, so many diplomatic issues arose in the conflict between the two countries, including the issue of naming in diplomatic documents and the issue of presents due to the increase in the number of high-ranking Japanese official who deal with Korean envoys. As the import of Chinese silk with patterns was banned because of the order declared by King Yeongjo across the country in 1746, the authorities agonized over the diplomatic gifts included silk. Because there was a fire on the boat with the vice envoy anchored in Yaniura Tsushima, ginseng as gift burned down in February 1748. The envoy Hong Gye-hee arranged to revise Cheophaesineo, the textbooks of interpreters in Japan. He purchased Dutch firearms and had Pak sang-sun and Ban Eung-mun learn the system to manufacture them. The paintings related to the Korean envoys in 1748, accounted for most documentary paintings drew ships, accommodations, design of diplomatic gifts, and the procession of envoys and wood blocks for market-selling produced in Japan. And there were some works painted in Japan by Yi Seong-rin and Choi Buk, who participated as member of the Korean envoys at that time. "Saroseunggu-do," which recorded a total of 30 scenes from departure at Busan port to the diplomatic protocol of Edo, painted by Yi Seong-rin and conveyed the reality of the traveling route. Yi stood out in landscapes and Taoist figure paintings in response to requests for paintings by the high-ranking officials of Tsushima and Edo, including Shogun. The circumstances in which Choi Buk participated as a group of diplomats were introduced in writings such as Yi Ik and Yi Hyun-hwan, but it was confirmed that he appeared under the real name Choi Sik in the Susailrok and was engaged in activities to draw Japanese farm supplies, which the vice envoy requested. In addition, the works left by Choi Buk and Yi Seong-rin during the meeting of Shunboku Ooka, who led the Kano school in Osaka, was published in wood block and handed down to the Japanese painter groups.