[KS] Portuguese during Hideyoshi invasion?
Ernie .
recanto at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 12 01:49:51 EDT 2007
Uppps... I wanted to say Cespedes stayed in Korea till February/March 1595,
not 1597. Sorry.
E. de Laurentis
>From: "Ernie ." <recanto at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
>To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
>Subject: Re: [KS] Portuguese during Hideyoshi invasion?
>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:51:42 +0000
>
>Dear Frank,
>
>As you mention, what is sure is that Gregorio de Cespedes y Simancas (born
>in Madrid, in 1551), arrived to Korea on December 27th, 1593, and stayed
>there with the (catholic) Japanese troops probably until February or March
>1597. Park Chul, but also Juan Ruiz de Medina (Origenes de la Iglesia
>Catolica Coreana desde 1566 hasta 1784. Institutum Historicum S.I., Roma,
>1986), have researched it in detail. I even would add there was another
>Spaniard, father Francisco de Laguna, how also, like Cespedes, travelled to
>Korea for a couple of months from December 1597 to January 1598 (as it can
>be read in Shütte, Josef Franz. Monumenta Historica Japoniae I, Roma, 1975,
>and again, in Park Chul or Ruiz de Medina).
>
>Jesuit sources in Japan and Macao in late 16th Century are very efficient
>in telling us most of the things they were doing those days, but I havent
>found any input (neither in the Spanish sources) on some suppose Portuguese
>fighting with the Chinese and Koreans against Japanese in 1597, as I
>recently read in an article published by Choe Yong-shik in Korea Herald
>(¿Korea Times?) on May 26, 2000, mentioning the Annals of the Choson
>Kingdom. Could that be true? Is there any English translation where I could
>check it?
>
>Thank you
>
>E. de Laurentis
>
>
>
>>From: Frank Hoffmann <hoffmann at koreaweb.ws>
>>Reply-To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
>>To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
>>CC: http:
>>Subject: Re: [KS] Portuguese during Hideyoshi invasion?
>>Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:12:10 -0700
>>
>>>I wonder if any of you could confirm me the supposed participation of
>>>Portuguese mercenaries or soldiers fighting the Japanese at the end of
>>>Hideyoshi invasion along with Chinese and Korean troops.
>>
>>Indeed, this seems very unlikely and is probably based on the wrong
>>reading of a text composed in some archaic Portuguese -- a letter by
>>Gaspar Vilela from 1571. But Vilela never visited Korea, and no other
>>Portuguese did at the time. If at all, it were the Spanish Jesuits that
>>were in Korea at that time, and they were there with the Japanese, not the
>>Chinese. One of the three generals that let the Japanese invasion army was
>>the daimyô Konishi Yunkinaga, and he brought de Céspedes to Korea to care
>>for the souls of his 15,000 Christian Japanese soldiers. See my 2002
>>posting about the same topic here:
>>http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2002-January/003055.html
>>Many works do refer to de Céspedes erroneously as Portuguese national.
>>For the date you mention, May 1597, I can't find any hint of any mention
>>of Portuguese either -- at least not in Chinese sources. And none of the
>>missionary and (Korean) Church histories do mention this.
>>
>>Frank
>>
>>
>>--
>>--------------------------------------
>>Frank Hoffmann
>>http://koreaweb.ws
>>
>
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