The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-09-13
OLD-TIME ENEMIES.
China and Japan Have Been Foes
for Two Thousand Years.
Corea Since Time Out Of Mind Has Bsen
thu Bone Of Contention Between the
Two Nations-The First
Invasion.

In the ''Land of the Chrysanthemum,w
BY DIR. David Murray, who was for
efly adviser to the Japanese min.
lister Of education, are some interestinN
facts concerning Japan's relations With
Corea and China. From China Japan
got everything except certain minor
phases Of art taught her by Corean
prisoners and exiles. From China she
got her hteratere and her very alphe-
bet, the traditions Of her art, almost ell
her higher life. This Is not the first
time she has quarreled with China over
Corea, but Of that anon. Once China
definitely decided on the conquest Of
Japan. It was In the days of Kublal
Kan, who decreed the stately pleasure
house In Coleridge's Xanadn. The jap
anese allege that Kublai sent one hum
dred thousand men for the invasion,
and that he managed to transport them
In three hundred junzs. The forces
landed were defeated by the hero To-
kimune, and typhoon finished of the
Chinese armada.
The first Japanese invasion of Corea,
as DIR. Murray points out, was under
the Empress lingo, who was mother
OF the god of war; therefore 1t has to
be taken with salt. Corea, or, as the
Japanese call it, Chosen, was divided
into three Kingdoms, Korai, Shirali
and Xudara. When Jingo-Kogo land
ed in Shiraki they all came with alao-
rity the Sanxan, the three tributary
countries dependent of japan. After
<hfc che xyoc o,,,vroco ranauk @or ,iv<r-
eight years, and died at the age Of one
hundred. So complacent did the Co
reans feel about being Sankan that the
king of Kudara sent an eminent Chi
nese scholar to 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 a very learned man.
The Emperor Jingo died about $40 B.
G., and Japanese garrison was main
tained in Kudara for trif1ing nine
hundred years, when the Coreans Of
Sbiraki 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 culture which were
eagerly welcomed by the rising Japan
ese empire. They were colonized in
convenient quarters In different prov
inces, and as an encouragement freed
from taxation for time. Their infiu-
ence upon the opening civilization Of
Japan cannot be overlooked or neg
lected in our estimate of the forces
which conspired to produce the final
result.
In another trifling nine hundred
years Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the du gues-
clin Of Japan, determined to conquer
Corea, which had suddenly discontinued
sending gifts He sent from one hun
dred and thirty thousand to three hum
dred Thousand men under Konishi and
Kato, the interesting feature being that
such large proportion of the army
were Christians (this was In 1852 that
they had to be humored by having Ko-
nishi, who was a Christian, in COM
mand. The two commanders were
always at loggerheads, and so the ex-
pedition was a 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 to intro
duce into Corea armies of overwhelm-
ing numbers However, all that the
Japanese ever got out of the conquest
and occupation Of Corea was three
sake tubs full Of picltled ears and noses,
the proceeds of thirty weight thousand
seven hundred Chinese and Corean
heads, which form the center OF the
Mimi Zuka, or ear mound In the Dali
butsu temple at Kyoto, and the pris-
oners of Shimazu Yoshehiro, prince OF
satsuma pottery, the wonder of the
world. The great and diplomatic Iye-
yasu restored the cordiality of rela-
tions between Japan and Corea, as is
testified by the exquisite bronze can
delabra which adorn his mausoleum at
Nikko. But Corea has never yet rot
over the ravagings Of Hideyoshi's ARMY.
Human SaCrlAcA Asnouv Ashou<..