Yujeong (Samyeong Daesa)

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2 related events

1. 1592 – 1598Imjin Warmilitia leader

   A seven-year war that began with Japan's invasion of Joseon in 1592 and lasted until 1598. Ming China sent troops, turning it into an East Asian international war.

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   1593Recapture of Pyongyangmilitia leader

   Ming relief forces under Li Rusong and Joseon troops retook Pyongyang, and Konishi Yukinaga's army fell back south.

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People who appear alongside

• Hyujeong (Seosan Daesa)1520 – 1604

  Buddhist master who, as supreme commander of monks, raised monk soldiers across the country in the Imjin War and joined the recapture of Pyongyang

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  King Seonjo1552 – 1608

  Fourteenth king of Joseon; fled to Uiju and asked Ming for help

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  Toyotomi Hideyoshi1537 – 1598

  Unified Japan and launched the invasion of Korea

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  Yi Sun-sin1545 – 1598

  Admiral of the Joseon navy, victorious at Okpo, Hansando and Myeongnyang

• Ryu Seong-ryong1542 – 1607

  Chief State Councillor who directed the war effort during the Imjin War, proposed the Hullyeon Dogam, and wrote the Jingbirok

• Sin Rip1546 – 1592

  General who made a back-to-the-river stand at Tangeumdae, Chungju, early in the Imjin War and died when routed by Konishi Yukinaga

• Li Rusong1549 – 1598

  Ming general who led the relief army and retook Pyongyang with Joseon forces

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  Konishi Yukinaga1558 – 1600

  Led the first Japanese division from the Busan landing up to Pyongyang

Themes this person appears in

• Imjin War1592 – 1598

  From the Japanese invasion to the Battle of Noryang — the righteous armies, Yi Sun-sin at sea, and Ming intervention

• 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

• Islamic Empires and the Atlantic World1500 – 1800

  Three centuries in which the Ottomans of Suleiman I, the Mughals of Akbar and the Safavids of Abbas I flourished and then faltered, while across the Atlantic the slave trade and colonies transformed the Americas, leading to American independence

• Reformation and Absolutism1517 – 1796

  From Luther’s Ninety-five Theses to Catherine the Great — the wars of religion of a divided Christendom ended at Westphalia, and absolute monarchs armed with divine right, standing armies, bureaucracies and mercantilism, followed by the enlightened despots of eastern Europe, contended for the balance of power among sovereign states

• Pyongyang194 BC – 2007

  From Wanggeom-seong of Gojoseon to the inter-Korean summits — capital of Goguryeo, Western Capital of Goryeo, the great city on the Taedong