The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-15
OLD-TIME ENEMIES.
China and Japan Have Been Foes
for Two Thousand Years.
Corea Since Time Out OF Mind Has Been
the Bone of Contention Between the
Two NatIons-The First
Invasion.

In the Land OF the Chry -
by DIR. David Murray, who was for
erly adviser to the Japanese min
lister of education, are some interesting
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 Gteratere and her very alpha
bet, the traditions of her art, almost all
her higher life. This is not the first
time she has quarreled with China over
Corea, but of that anon. Once China
i.efnitely decided on the conquest of
Japan. 1t was in the days of Kublai
Kan, who decreed the stately pleasure
house in Coleridge's Xanadn. The jap
aaeSe al1ege that Kublai sent one hun
drcd thousand men for the invasion,
and that he managed to transport them
: three hundred junks. The forces
l2ndcd were defeated by the hero To
;:iInune, and typhoon finished off the
Chinese armada.
The first japanese invasion of Corea,
a3 DR.. Murray points out, was under
nc Empress lingo, who was mother
Of the god of war; therefore it has to
be taken with salt. Corea, or, as the
into three kingdoms, Korai, Shiraki
and Xudara. When Jingo-Kogo land
ed in Shiraki they all came with alac-
rity the Sankan, the three tributary
countries dependent of Japan After
this she was empress regent for sixty
eight years, and died at the age of one
hundred. So complacent did the Co
reans feel about being Sankan that the
Liz Of III
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 very learned man.
=. and Japanese garrison was main
tanned in Kudara for a trifiing nine
hundred years, when the Coreans of
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
csc empire. They were colonized in
convenient quarters in different prov
inces, and as an encouragement freed
ence upon the opening civilization of
lected in our estimate of the forces
which conspired to produce the final
result.
In another trifing nine hundred
years Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the du CUES
clin of Japan, determined to conquer
Corea, which had suddenly discontinued
dred and thirty thousand to three hun
dred thousand men under Konishi and
Kato, the interesting feature being that
such a large proportion of the army
were Christians this was in 1889 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 picked ears and noses,
OhO PAOCOOUo VI Jill ~ -S4ShG GhOuSdnd
seven hundred Chinese and Corean
heads, which form the center of the
Mimi Zulza, 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 got
over the ravagings of Hideyoshi's army.
Human Sacrifice Among Ashantes.