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The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China

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by Samuel Hawley


  [860] John Whitney Hall, “The Bakuhan System,” in The Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 4, Early Modern Japan, ed. John Whitney Hall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 144.

  [861] Toby, 25-35.

  [862] Elisonas, “Trinity,” 294-299.

  [863] Etsuko Hae-jin Kang, 115, 124, 119, and 121.

  [864] Tsuruta Kei, “The Establishment and Characteristics of the ‘Tsushima Gate,’” Acta Asiatica, 67 (1994): 39.

  [865] S.N. Eisenstadt, Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 185.

  [866] Turnbull, Samurai Warfare, 78-79.

  [867] Report by Commander John Rodgers, USN, to the Secretary of the Navy, in Noel Perrin, Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879 (Boston: David R. Godine, 1979), 3-4.

  [868] Tsunoda and others, Sources, vol. 2, 592.

  [869] Marius Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 2000), 362.

  [870] Horace Allen to William Rockhill, Jan. 4, 1904, quoted in Peter Duus, The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1995), 189.

  [871] George Kennan writing in Outlook magazine, quoted in Marius Jansen, Japan and China: From War to Peace, 1894-1972 (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1975), 124.

  [872] Son Key-young, “Seoul Criticizes Tokyo for Authorizing ‘Distorted’ Textbooks, The Korea Times, April 3, 2001; “Seoul’s Fury Stems From History,” The Korea Times, July 9, 2001.

  [873] Kanako Takahara, “Lawmakers’ Views of Past Still Plague Relations,” The Japan Times, Feb. 14, 2002.

  [874] Pak Chu-yong, “Imran gui-mudom kot tora-onda…Pak Sam-jung sunim chujinjung,” Choson Ilbo, Jan. 16, 1996; “Gui-mudom silche hwankukumjikim bongyokhwa,” Choson Ilbo, Jan. 16, 1996.

  [875] Nicholas D. Kristof, “Japan, Korea and 1597: A Year That Lives in Infamy,” The New York Times, Sept. 14, 1997, section 1.

  Table of Contents

  Copyright

  ALSO BY SAMUEL HAWLEY

  MAPS AND TABLES

  PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION

  INTRODUCTION

  A NOTE ON DATES

  PART 1 THE THREE KINGDOMS

  CHAPTER 1 Japan: From Civil War to World Power

  CHAPTER 2 China: The Ming Dynasty in Decline

  CHAPTER 3 A Son Called Sute: “Thrown Away”

  CHAPTER 4 Korea: Highway to the Prize

  PART 2 PRELUDE TO WAR

  CHAPTER 5 “By fast ships I have dispatched orders to Korea...”

  CHAPTER 6 Preparations for War

  CHAPTER 7 The Final Days

  PART 3 IMJIN

  CHAPTER 8 North to Seoul

  CHAPTER 9 Hideyoshi Jubilant

  CHAPTER 10 The Korean Navy Strikes Back

  CHAPTER 11 On to Pyongyang

  CHAPTER 12 The Battle for the Yellow Sea

  CHAPTER 13 “To me the Japanese robber army will be but a swarm of ants and wasps”

  CHAPTER 14 A Castle at Fushimi

  CHAPTER 15 Suppression and Resistance

  CHAPTER 16 Saving History

  PART 4 STALEMATE

  CHAPTER 17 The Retreat from Pyongyang to the “River of Hell”

  CHAPTER 18 Seoul Retaken

  CHAPTER 19 Negotiations at Nagoya, Slaughter at Chinju

  CHAPTER 20 Factions, Feuds, and Forgeries

  CHAPTER 21 Meanwhile, in Manila…

  CHAPTER 22 “You, Hideyoshi, are hereby instructed... to cheerfully obey our imperial commands!”

  CHAPTER 23 The Arrest and Imprisonment of Yi Sun-sin

  PART 5 THE SECOND INVASION

  CHAPTER 24 “Water, Thunder, and Great Disaster”

  CHAPTER 25 The Japanese Advance Inland

  CHAPTER 26 “Seek death and you will live; seek life and you will die”

  CHAPTER 27 Starvation and Death in a “Buddha-less World”

  CHAPTER 28 “Even Osaka Castle is only a dream”

  CHAPTER 29 The Last Act

  PART 6 AFTERMATH

  CHAPTER 30 What Came Next

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  NOTES

 

 

 


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