About “Haedong chegukki”
Haedong chegukki, or Records of Countries Across the Sea to the East, is a fifteenth-century Korean text on relations between Joseon, Japan, and the Ryūkyū Kingdom. Compiled by government officials around 1470-71, it was presented to King Seongjong in early 1472. That manuscript is lost, but an expanded printed version from 1512 survives, including a chronicle of the Emperors of Japan, a gazetteer of Japan, and maps of Japan and Ryūkyū. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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