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Wokou

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Wokou (Japanese: Wakō; Korean: 왜구 Waegu), which literally translates to "Japanese pirates" or "dwarf pirates", were pirates who raided the coastlines of China, Japan and Korea. [1]

78 relations: Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Ōei Invasion, C. R. Boxer, Cambridge University Press, Cangnan County, Chenghua Emperor, China, Chongwu, Chungbuk National University, Chungcheong Province, Emperor Yingzong of Ming, Fujian, Galeote Pereira, Gaspar da Cruz, Geojedo, Goguryeo, Goryeo, Goryeosa, Gotō Islands, Guangdong, Gunsan, Gwanggaeto Stele, Gwanggaeto the Great, Gyeonggi Province, Gyeongsang Province, Helen Hardacre, History of Ming, History Today, Hongwu Emperor, Hongxi Emperor, Hongzhi Emperor, Hopae, Huai'an County, Identity document, Iki Island, Imagawa Sadayo, Iwanami Shoten, Japan, Japanese language, Jeolla Province, Jeong Mong-ju, Ji'an, Jilin, Jiajing Emperor, Jiajing wokou raids, Jiangnan, Jianwen Emperor, Jingtai Emperor, Korea, Korean language, Liaoning, ..., Liu'ao, Fujian, Longqing Emperor, Michigan State University Press, Ming dynasty, Ningbo, Osprey Publishing, Piracy, Piracy in the Strait of Malacca, Qi Jiguang, Regnal year, Sejong the Great, Shandong, Stephen Turnbull (historian), The Cambridge History of Japan, Tsushima Island, University of Minnesota, University of Tokyo, Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty, Wa (Japan), Wang Zhi (pirate), Wanli Emperor, Xuande Emperor, Yi Jongmu, Yongle Emperor, Yu Dayou, Zhejiang, Zhengde Emperor, Zomia (region). Expand index (28 more) »

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu

was the 3rd shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate, which was in power from 1368 to 1394 during the Muromachi period of Japan.

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Ōei Invasion

The, known as the Gihae Eastern Expedition (기해 동정) in Korea, was a 1419 invasion from Joseon against pirate bases on Tsushima Island, which is located in the middle of the Tsushima Strait between the Korean Peninsula and Kyushu.

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C. R. Boxer

Charles Ralph Boxer FBA (8 March 1904 at Sandown, Isle of Wight – 27 April 2000 at St. Albans, Hertfordshire) was a historian of Dutch and Portuguese maritime and colonial history.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Cangnan County

Cangnan County is a county in the prefecture-level city of Wenzhou in southern Zhejiang.

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Chenghua Emperor

The Chenghua Emperor (9 December 1447 – 9 September 1487), born Zhu Jianshen, was the ninth Emperor of the Ming dynasty in China, between 1464 and 1487.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chongwu

Chongwu Town is a township-level division of Hui'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture-level city, Fujian Province, China.

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Chungbuk National University

Chungbuk National University (CBNU) is one of ten Flagship Korean National Universities.

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Chungcheong Province

Chungcheong (Chungcheong-do) was one of the eight provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty.

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Emperor Yingzong of Ming

Zhu Qizhen (29 November 1427 – 23 February 1464) was the sixth and eighth emperor of the Ming dynasty.

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Fujian

Fujian (pronounced), formerly romanised as Foken, Fouken, Fukien, and Hokkien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China.

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Galeote Pereira

Galeote Pereira (sometimes also Galiote Pereira) was a 16th-century Portuguese soldier of fortune.

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Gaspar da Cruz

Gaspar da Cruz (1520 – 5 February 1570; sometimes also known under an Hispanized version of his name, Gaspar de la Cruz) was a Portuguese Dominican friar born in Évora, who traveled to Asia and wrote one of the first detailed European accounts about China.

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Geojedo

Geojedo or Geoje Island (also often spelled Koje Island) is the principal island of Geoje City, on the southern coast of Gyeongsangnam-do province, South Korea.

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Goguryeo

Goguryeo (37 BCE–668 CE), also called Goryeo was a Korean kingdom located in the northern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula and the southern and central parts of Manchuria.

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Goryeo

Goryeo (918–1392), also spelled as Koryŏ, was a Korean kingdom established in 918 by King Taejo.

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Goryeosa

The Goryeosa or History of Goryeo is the principal surviving history of Korea's Goryeo Dynasty.

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Gotō Islands

The are Japanese islands in the East China Sea, off the western coast of Kyūshū.

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Guangdong

Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.

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Gunsan

Gunsan is a city in North Jeolla Province, South Korea.

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Gwanggaeto Stele

The Gwanggaeto Stele is a memorial stele for the tomb of King Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo, erected in 414 by his son Jangsu.

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Gwanggaeto the Great

Gwanggaeto the Great (374–413, r. 391–413) was the nineteenth monarch of Goguryeo.

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Gyeonggi Province

Gyeonggi-do (Hangul: 경기도) is the most populous province in South Korea.

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Gyeongsang Province

Gyeongsang (경상도, Gyeongsang-do) was one of the eight provinces of Korea during the Joseon dynasty.

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Helen Hardacre

Helen Hardacre (born 1949) is an American academic and Japanologist.

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History of Ming

The History of Ming or the Ming History (Míng Shǐ) is one of the official Chinese historical works known as the Twenty-Four Histories.

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History Today

History Today is an illustrated history magazine.

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Hongwu Emperor

The Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang (Chu Yuan-chang in Wade-Giles), was the founding emperor of China's Ming dynasty.

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Hongxi Emperor

The Hongxi Emperor (洪熙; 16 August 1378 – 29 May 1425), personal name Zhu Gaochi (朱高熾), was the fourth emperor of the Ming dynasty of China.

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Hongzhi Emperor

The Hongzhi Emperor (30 July 1470 – 9 June 1505) was the tenth emperor of the Ming dynasty in China between 1487 and 1505.

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Hopae

Hopae were identification tags carried by Koreans during the Joseon dynasty, recording the bearer's name, place of birth, status and residence.

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Huai'an County

Huai'an County is a county in the northwest of Hebei, China.

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Identity document

An identity document (also called a piece of identification or ID, or colloquially as papers) is any document which may be used to prove a person's identity.

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Iki Island

, or the is an archipelago in the Tsushima Strait, which is administered as the city of Iki in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.

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Imagawa Sadayo

, also known as, was a renowned Japanese poet and military commander who served as tandai ("constable") of Kyūshū under the Ashikaga bakufu from 1371 to 1395.

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Iwanami Shoten

is a Japanese publishing company in Tokyo.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese language

is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.

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Jeolla Province

Jeolla Province was a province in southwestern Korea, one of the historical Eight Provinces of Korea during the Kingdom of Joseon.

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Jeong Mong-ju

Jeong Mong-ju or Jung Mong-joo (Korean: 정몽주, Hanja: 鄭夢周, January 13, 1338 – April 26, 1392), also known by his pen name Poeun (Korean: 포은), was a prominent Korean scholar-official and diplomat during the late Goryeo period.

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Ji'an, Jilin

Ji'an (formerly) is a county-level city in southwestern part of Jilin province, People's Republic of China.

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Jiajing Emperor

The Jiajing Emperor (16September 150723January 1567) was the 12th emperor of the Chinese Ming dynasty who ruled from 1521 to 1567.

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Jiajing wokou raids

The Jiajing wokou raids (嘉靖大倭寇 or 嘉靖倭亂) caused extensive damage to the coast of China in the 16th century, during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor (r. 1521–67) in the Ming dynasty.

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Jiangnan

Jiangnan or Jiang Nan (sometimes spelled Kiang-nan, literally "South of the river") is a geographic area in China referring to lands immediately to the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, including the southern part of its delta.

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Jianwen Emperor

The Jianwen Emperor (5 December 1377 – 13 July 1402?) was the second emperor of the Ming dynasty in China.

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Jingtai Emperor

The Jingtai Emperor (景泰) (21 September 1428 – 14 March 1457), born Zhu Qiyu, was Emperor of China from 1449 to 1457.

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Korea

Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.

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Korean language

The Korean language (Chosŏn'gŭl/Hangul: 조선말/한국어; Hanja: 朝鮮말/韓國語) is an East Asian language spoken by about 80 million people.

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Liaoning

Liaoning is a province of China, located in the northeast of the country.

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Liu'ao, Fujian

The Liu'ao Peninsula (六鳌半岛) is located in the southern part of China's Fujian Province's coast.

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Longqing Emperor

The Longqing Emperor (4March 15375July 1572), personal name Zhu Zaiji (朱載坖), was the 13th emperor of the Ming dynasty of China from 1567 to 1572.

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Michigan State University Press

Michigan State University Press is the scholarly publishing arm of Michigan State University, the nation’s pioneer land-grant university (the institution that served as the prototype for schools established under the Morrill Land-Grant Acts of 1862).

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China – then known as the – for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Ningbo

Ningbo, formerly written Ningpo, is a sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province in China. It comprises the urban districts of Ningbo proper, three satellite cities, and a number of rural counties including islands in Hangzhou Bay and the East China Sea. Its port, spread across several locations, is among the busiest in the world and the municipality possesses a separate state-planning status. As of the 2010 census, the entire administrated area had a population of 7.6 million, with 3.5 million in the six urban districts of Ningbo proper. To the north, Hangzhou Bay separates Ningbo from Shanghai; to the east lies Zhoushan in the East China Sea; on the west and south, Ningbo borders Shaoxing and Taizhou respectively.

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Osprey Publishing

Osprey Publishing is an Oxford-based publishing company specializing in military history.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable items or properties.

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Piracy in the Strait of Malacca

Piracy in the Strait of Malacca has for long been a threat to ship owners and the mariners who ply the 900 km-long (550 miles) sea lane.

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Qi Jiguang

Qi Jiguang (November 12, 1528 – January 17, 1588), courtesy name Yuanjing, art names Nantang and Mengzhu, posthumous name Wuyi, was a military general of the Ming dynasty.

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Regnal year

A regnal year is a year of the reign of a sovereign, from the Latin regnum meaning kingdom, rule.

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Sejong the Great

Sejong the Great (7 May 1397 – 8 April 1450) was the fourth king of Joseon-dynasty Korea.

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Shandong

Shandong (formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region.

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Stephen Turnbull (historian)

Stephen Richard Turnbull (born 6 February 1948) is a British academic, historian and writer.

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The Cambridge History of Japan

The Cambridge History of Japan is a multi-volume survey of Japanese history published by Cambridge University Press (CUP).

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Tsushima Island

is an island of the Japanese archipelago situated in the Korea Strait, approximately halfway between the Japanese mainland and the Korean Peninsula.

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University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (often referred to as the University of Minnesota, Minnesota, the U of M, UMN, or simply the U) is a public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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University of Tokyo

, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.

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Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty

The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty (also known as The True Record of the Joseon Dynasty) are the annual records of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea, which were kept from 1413 to 1865.

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Wa (Japan)

Japanese is the oldest recorded name of Japan.

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Wang Zhi (pirate)

Wang Zhi was a Chinese pirate and trader of the 16th century, one of the chief named and known figures among the wokou ("Japanese" pirates; wako in Japanese) prevalent during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor.

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Wanli Emperor

The Wanli Emperor (4 September 1563 – 18 August 1620), personal name Zhu Yijun, was the 14th emperor of the Ming dynasty of China.

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Xuande Emperor

The Xuande Emperor (16 March 1399 31 January 1435), personal name Zhu Zhanji (朱瞻基), was the fifth emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, ruling from 1425 to 1435.

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Yi Jongmu

Yi Jong Mu (1360–1425) was a Korean general who led the Oei Invasion to conquer Tsushima Island in 1419.

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Yongle Emperor

The Yongle Emperor (Yung-lo in Wade–Giles; 2 May 1360 – 12 August 1424) — personal name Zhu Di (WG: Chu Ti) — was the third emperor of the Ming dynasty in China, reigning from 1402 to 1424.

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Yu Dayou

Yu Dayou (1503–1579), courtesy name Zhifu, art name Xujiang, was a Chinese general and martial artist best known for countering the wokou pirates along China's southeastern coast during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor in the Ming dynasty.

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Zhejiang

, formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China.

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Zhengde Emperor

The Zhengde Emperor (26October 149120April 1521) was the 11th Ming dynasty Emperor of China between 1505–1521.

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Zomia (region)

Zomia is a geographical term coined in 2002 by historian Willem van Schendel of the University of Amsterdam to refer to the huge mass of mainland Southeast Asia that has historically been beyond the control of governments based in the population centers of the lowlands.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wokou

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