Episode 526 - The Outside World and Tokugawa Japan
History of Japan
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Reverence for Korean Writing in Japan
- Shin-Yu Han, a Korean envoy visiting Japan in 1719, was overwhelmed by the Japanese reverence for Korean writing.
- People mobbed him for his poetry, piling papers on his desk and keeping him from sleeping or eating.
- The Japanese treated Korean writing as sacred, treasuring even scraps of paper with Korean characters.
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