The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-07
OLD TINE ENEMIES
China and japan Have Been Foes
for Two Thousand Years
tcrea since Time Ont of Mind Has Been
tho Bone OF Contention Between the
Two Na;ions-The First
Iavnsto1.


by DR.. David Murray, who was fc>
erly adviser to the japanese mir
lister Of education. are some interesting
facts concerning Japan's relations wit.
COrea and China From China Japan
got everything except certain minor
phases Of art taught her by Corcan
prisoners and exlleS. From China shs
got her hteratere and her very alpha
bet, the traditions Of her Art, almost ell
her higher life. This is not the GrsA
time she has quarTcled with China over
Corea, bat of that anon. Once China
definitely decided On the conquest OF
Japan. II was IN the days of kubIai
Kan, who decreed the stately pleasure
house in Coleridge's Xanadn. The Jap
auese ailege that kublai sent one hun
drAd thousand men for the invasion,
aud that he managed 20 transport them
in three hundred junlSs. The forcef
landed were defeated by the hero To-
Ainune, and typhoon finished OF the
Chinese armada
The first japanese invasion Of Corea,
as DIR. Murray points cut, was under
the Empress lingo, who was mothe,
OF the god Of war; therefore IL has TO
re taken with salt Corea. or, as the
japanese call it, Chosen. was divided
into three kingdoms. Korai. Shirald
and Xudara- When Jinco-koCo land
cd in Shirald they sll camo with ALAG
rity the SanlSau, the three tributary
countries dependent Of Japan. After
this she was empress regent for sixty
a. ~ a
hundred So complaccnt did the Co
rears feel about being Sankau that the
king of kudara sent an eminent Chi
nese scholar 20 educate Jingo's son
The scholar took with him the "Confu-
clan Analects" and the Thousand
Character Essay and the future god
Of war became very learned man.
The Emperor lingo died about $40 II.
C., and a Japanese garrison was main
tanned in kudara for trifiing nine
hundred years. when the Corcans ot
Shirald and the Chinese compelled
them To withdraw. With the Japanese
went many Of the Corean friends, who
came with them, like the Huguenots
when driven from France, knowledge
Of many arts and "A culture which wers
eagerly welcomed by the rising Japan
ess empire They were colonized In
convenient quarters IN different prov
inces, and as an encouragement freed
from taxation for time. Their infiu-
sncs upon the opening civilization OF
japan cannot be overlooked or neg
lected in our estimate OF the forces
which c0nspired 10 produce the find
result.
In another trifiug nine hundred
years Toyotoni Hidcyoshi, the du CUES
rlin OF Japan, determined % conquer
Corea. which had suddenly discontinued
sending gifts lie sent from one hun.
drei and thirty thousand to three hum
dred thousand men under Konishi and
Kato, the interesting feature being that
such a large proportion of the army
were Christians (this WA In 1887 that
they had to DC humored by having Ko-
nishi, who was Christian, In com
mand. The two commanders weru
always at loggerheads. and 50 the er-
petition was virtual failure. though
neither Coreans nor Cinnamon could
make any stand before the two-headed
sword of the Japanese, until the Chi
nese by treachery gained time 70 intro
duce into Corea armies of overwhelm-
Ing numbers However. all that the
Japanese ever got ont Of the conquest
md occupation of Corea was three
sake tubs fun of piclfIed ears and noses,
the proceeds Of thirty-eigh. thousand
seven hundred Chinese and Corean
heads, which form the center of the
Mimi Zuka, or ear mound in the DAB
butsu temple n Kyoto, and the pr.s-
oners Of shimazu Yoshchiro. prince Of
hatsuma pottery, the wonder Of tbs
world The great and diplomatic Iye-
yasu restored the cordiality Of rela~
tions between Japan and Corea, a. Is
testified by the exquisite bronze can
delabra which sdorn his mausoleurn ~
Sikko. But Corea has never yet gOs
vver-ths ravsgings Of Hideyoshis army