Exhibit in Tokyo on Korean embassies to Tokugawa Japan

[Travis Seifman]

Dear colleagues,

I discovered today the small but wonderful Korea Museum 高麗博物館 in Shin-Ôkubo, Tokyo, which is currently holding an exhibition about the Chôsen tsûshinshi / Joseon t'ongsinsa embassies dispatched by the Korean kingdom of Joseon to Edo in the 17th-18th centuries. The exhibit admittedly consists primarily of explanatory panels with very few original objects on display, but there's a small diorama or model of a Korean embassy procession which is wonderful, and overall it's just a wonderful little museum that I had not known of before, so I thought I would share about it.

You can see more information here: https://kouraihakubutsukan.org/

The museum is located on the 7th floor of a building right along the main street very close to Shin-Ôkubo Station: 〒169－0072 東京都新宿区大久保1-12-1 第二韓国広場ビル７階

Other floors of the building are occupied by additional Korean cultural centers.

The exhibit runs until May 3, 2020.

For those interested in the topic of the Chôsen tsûshinshi, two of the top experts on the subject will be giving talks within the next couple of months:

Tashiro Kazui 田代和生, who has written extensively on the embassies, will be giving a talk on Sat March 28 (2-4pm) entitled 「朝鮮通信使が見た庶民芸能」.

And the museum will also be screening a 1979 documentary, 「江戸時代の朝鮮通信使」, planned and produced by Sin Kisu 辛基秀, on Sat Feb 22 and Sat Apr 11 (2-4pm on both days). After each screening, Prof. Sin, who has also written extensively about the embassies, and whose collection of paintings and other materials related to the Korean embassies, now in the Osaka Museum of History, is perhaps one of the best collections of such materials outside of Korea, will be holding Q&A sessions, or "free talk" フリートーク, as the museum has it on their website.

The museum seems quite active in school group exchanges and other activities sharing about Korean culture and trying to help foster Korean-Japanese friendship. A friendly and interesting institution, to be sure.

Cheers,

Travis

Travis Seifman

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute

[Jay Lewis]

Dear Dr. Seifman,

Thank you for bringing this museum to our attention.

I don't think that Sin Kisu 辛基秀 will be there to talk about his film, as
I believe he passed away in 2002.

Yours,

JB Lewis

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[Travis Seifman]

Dear Dr. Lewis,

I now see that I misinterpreted the listing on the museum's website and made bad assumptions, when in fact all it says is that they'll have a "free talk" after watching the film. No actual mention of "with the director" or any phrase to that effect. My mistake.

映画＆ 交流会 　

「江戸時代の朝鮮通信使」 

辛 基秀 企画・製作 1979年 48分 

映画鑑賞後フリートーク

Thank you for the correction.

Much obliged,

Travis

Travis Seifman

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute

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