Pak Ssi ch irhy?n k??i rok [or] Pak Ssi chirhyeon geoeui rok ??????? [Record of the Righteous Resistance of Seven Worthies of the Pak Lineage (of Chinw?n ??)]

PAK, Chae-hwan (or PAK, Je-hwan) ???, attributed author

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52 folding leaves. Large 8vo (298 x 190 mm.), orig. patterned semi-stiff wrappers (wrappers a little soiled), old stitching (stitching partially defective). [Korea]: Preface dated 1801, Afterword dated 1816. A very rare edition of this collection of documents relating to seven men and their actions during the Imjin War and the Manchu invasion of Korea in 1636. The invasions of Korea, first by the Japanese in the 1590s and then by the Manchus in the 1620s and 1630s, were important moments in the course of events that led to the rise of the Manchu Qing empire in continental East Asia. The large-scale fighting and movement of troops from Japan and China into the Korean peninsula in the late 16th century mark a watershed in Korean history. The cost of the wars also severely weakened the Chinese Ming dynasty, which eventually collapsed in 1644, ushering in an entirely new balance of power in the region. The "seven worthies" of the title include Pak Kwang-j?n ??? (1526-97, style name Chuk-ch ?n or Juk-cheon ??), and his sons K?n-hyo ??? (1550-1607) and K?n-je ??, all of whom distinguished themselves during the Japanese invasion in the 1590s, and grandsons and great-grandsons who resisted the Manchus in 1636 as commanders of irregulars. Our copy has a Preface dated 1801 by Song Hwan-gi ??? (1728-1807), a Chos?n scholar-official. Song writes that, "in the history of armed invasions of our dynasty, none were more brutal than the two disorders of the imjin (1592) and py?ngja (1636) years." Four generations of the Pak family "fathers and sons, ancestor and descendants, older and younger brothers, uncles and nephews" had distinguished themselves during those trying times. Song ends the Preface by saying that "the person who now came to ask me for my text is Chae-hwan, an eighth-generation descendant of Chuk-ch ?n." The wording suggests that Pak Chae-hwan edited the work, hence our attribution of authorship. We find no matches to our copy in either WorldCat or the Korean Old and Rare Collection Information System (KORCIS). In addition to the Preface dated 1801, our copy has a colophon (pal ?) by Yi ??? (also known as Yi Ch ?ng ?????, 1792-1861) dated 1816. Some copies described in KORCIS have 20 characters per column, while our copy has 19 on some pages and 18 on others. Some catalogues ascribe authorship of the book to Pak Chung-hong ??? (1802-72), probably because one edition of the present work was published in 1856 along with a collection of Pak Kwang-j?n s works that Pak Chung-hong edited. This is the case with the Harvard-Yenching copy (K 5568.2 4398 [4], WorldCat 40280697), which has a Preface dated 1856 (by?ngjin ??). References Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ??????????? https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/ Korean Old and Rare Collection Information System ????????? https://www.nl.go.kr/korcis/index.do. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9425

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