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Politics5th month 1609(Lunar)

Treaty of Giyu

After the Imjin War Joseon reopened trade with Japan through a treaty with Tsushima, opening only the port of Busan and limiting trade ships to twenty a year.

Sō Yoshitoshi, lord of Tsushima, who concluded the Treaty of Giyu with Joseon
Sō Yoshitoshi, lord of Tsushima, who concluded the Treaty of Giyu with Joseon

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Joseon restored relations with Japan in 1607, bringing home captives. The 1609 treaty with the lord of Tsushima set up a Japan House at Busan and strictly limited trade to twenty ships and a hundred seok of rice a year; twelve Joseon embassies later went to the Edo shogunate.

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States and rulers at the time
Joseon · signatory — Gwanghaegun
Japan · signatory
Places
Busan

People

  • Gwanghaegun1575 – 1641

    monarch · Fifteenth king of Joseon who began the Daedong law and balanced Ming and the Later Jin; deposed in 1623

Before and after

Earlier
1608 Daedong law
Later
1610 Dongui bogam completed

Themes that include this event

  • Ming, Qing and Edo Japan1500 – 1800

    The age when the Ming, shaken by northern raiders, southern pirates and the silver economy, fell to Li Zicheng’s rebels, and the Manchu Qing reached its greatest extent and prosperity under Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong — as Japan was unified out of the Warring States into the Edo shogunate’s bakuhan order and closed country, and Joseon, after two great wars, met its neighbours through embassies to Edo and the Northern Learning

  • Busan1443 – 1979

    Port of the Japan House and of the 1876 opening — Korea’s gateway to Japan, and wartime capital in the Korean War