The record is interesting because it talks about the inspection party going to "Sea Lion Cave," where they found seven or eight sea lions. I am not sure if they were talking about a particular cave, but there is a cave called "Sea Lion Cave" on the west coast of Ulleungdo. Korea claims that Ulleungdo inspectors used to travel to Liancourt Rocks (Dokdo) to hunt sea lions, but this record and others show that they hunted sea lions on Ulleungdo, not Liancourt Rocks.
Gangwon Governor Jeong Won-yeong Reports Inspection of Ulleungdo
In accordance with the standing order to conduct biennial inspections of Ulleungdo, Samcheok Commander Ha Si-myeong (河始明) reported that on April 16th, he led Japanese interpretor Choi Gap-mun (崔甲文) and eighty more people, including officials and sailors, boarded four ships, and reached Ulleungdo on April 23th. Surveying the geography of the island, they saw Hwangto Cave (黄土窟 - "Golden Clay Cave") on the left and and Byeongpung Rock (屛風巖 - "Folding Screen Rock") on the right.
At five ri from Hwangto-gumi (黄土龜尾 - "Golden Clay Cove") toward the central peak, there was an area where fields and paddies could be cultivated. There were also old foundations of dwellings. From there they advanced to the the cove entrance, where there was a cliff with juniper trees on top that could be sealed and presented to the king, so they harvested them. Afterwards, they went to Pyeongtak-gumi (萍卓邱尾 -"High Duckweed Cove"), where there was a grove of large bamboo. The bamboo had been thinned out, but they harvested the largest among them. Then they headed east to Jangsa-gumi (長沙邱尾), where they saw from a distance a bamboo grove on top of the cliff, but it was all small bamboo. They entered the island and thoroughly inspected its interior for three days.
The circumference of the island is about eighty or ninety ri, and it is all rock mountains. The trees on the island include mulberry, pinenut, paulownia, elm, juniper, and hazelnut. The birds on the island include crow, sparrow, sea gull, and quail. The creeping animals are cats and rats. The sea products include brown seaweed, abalone, and various fish.
They went to Sea Lion Cave (可支魚窟), where they surprised seven or eight sea lions. They shot and clubbed them and got two of them before they could jump into the sea. On April 27th, they came back and anchored at Gangneung (江陵).
I am presenting 2 pieces of rosewood incense (紫檀香), which are sealed in this letter. In addition, there are ten more pieces of rosewood incense (紫檀香) , three green bamboo, six seung (升) of red ocher (石間朱), and two skins of sea lions (可支魚). As is the custom, we will send a map of the island, two skins of sealions, three green bamboo, six seung (升) of red ocher (石間朱), and twelve pieces of rosewood incense (紫檀香) to the Bibyeonsa (備邊司) after they are inventoried.
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江原監司 鄭元容以鬱陵島搜討馳達
狀達以爲鬱陵島搜討間二年擧行自是定式而今年搜討三陟營將 河始明牒呈內四月十六日與倭學崔甲文及所率負役沙格等八十人分載四船二十三日泊于本島看審則左有黃土窟右有屛風石自黃土邱尾至中峯爲五里而中有可墾田畓處或有古人所居之基址前進至浦口壁上有進上香木可封者故斫取後至萍卓邱尾則有大竹田而竹本稀疏取其中稍大者斫取而東至長沙邱尾望見竹田在於壁上俱是小竹入島三日詳察島內則周回殆近八九十里俱是石山而厥木則桑栢桐楡香榛之屬飛禽則烏雀鷗鶉走獸則猫鼠海錯則藿鰒雜魚又到可支魚窟則可支魚七八首驚人入海之際砲搏捉得二首二十七日還到泊於江陵而進上元封紫檀香二吐莫加封十吐莫靑竹三箇石間朱六升可支魚皮二領依例上送云本島圖形一本可支皮二領靑竹三箇石間朱六升紫檀香十二吐莫一一尺量後上送于備邊司
I noticed that in this record they found seven or eight sea lions in a "sea lion cave." I am not sure where the cave is, but there is cave called "Sea Lion Cave" on the west side of the island. However, I do not know if they were referring to that particular cave or to some other cave on the island. Anyway, this is another example of a Korean survey team catching sea lions on Ulleungdo, not Liancourt Rocks (Dokdo).
ReplyDeleteGerry,
ReplyDeleteThis is my translation of this text ( I used your English as a base, so it looks much better, I hope. ). I think accuracy is 80% or so. So please wait until I get proof reading. But I guess you can grasp the point basically. BTW, I couldn't understand "牒呈內". Do you have any idea?
1827 May 19 - Record of Ulleungdo Inspection
There was an written order for biannual inspection, then this is the year of the inspection. On April 16th, Samcheok Commander Han ? (河始明) with Che ?(崔甲文), translator for Japanese lead official sailors (沙格) and 80 others of them on 4 ships.
On April 23th, we reached to Ulleungdo. Surveying the geography of the island, they saw Hwangto Cave (黄土窟 - "Golden Clay Cave") on the left and and Byeongpung Rock (屛風巖 - "Folding Screen Rock") on the right. From Hwangto-gumi (黄土龜尾 - "Golden Clay Cove") to the middle peak, it is 5-ri and there were places possible for cultivation or the ruins of hoses. Forwarding from there, we reached to the opening of the cove (浦口). On top of the cliff, there were juniper trees which can be a present to be sealed in, thus they cut (斫取：sharpened off?) them. Later, we reached to 萍卓邱尾, and there were huge bamboo field. It wasn't easy to cut off the trunck of bamboo( ← I'm not sure what "竹本稀疏取" means. ), then we cut of only with huge trunks among them. Then we head to the east to 長沙邱尾, and we saw bamboo field on the cliff, but those are short bamboos. For three days since we entered in the island, we inspected the inside of the island in detail. The circumference of the island is almost 80 or 90-ri and this is a rocky island. Trees are, 桑,栢,桐,楡,香榛 and others, and flying animals are, 烏,雀,鷗,鶉. Running animals are, cats and rats. The sea animals on the bay were 藿,鰒,雜魚. And we reached to 可支魚窟, then there were 7-8 sealions surprised by us. We shot down and captured two of them before jumped into the sea.
On the 27th of April, we went back to 江陵 and styaed there. I am presenting 2 pieces of rosewood incense (紫檀香), which are sealed in this letter. In addition, ten more pieces of rosewood incense (紫檀香) , three green bamboo, six seung (升) of red ocher (石間朱), and two skins of sea lions (可支魚). As is the custom, we send the Bibyeonsa (備邊司) a map of the island, two skins of sealions, three green bamboo, six seung (升) of red ocher (石間朱), and twelve pieces of rosewood incense (紫檀香).
日本人の方々、いつもの通り、チェックをお願い致します。
家に帰るまであと四時間掛かります。しばらくお待ちください。
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kaneganese. If you see any mistakes in my edits, please let me know.
ReplyDelete江原監司 鄭元容が鬱陵島搜討の報告をするためにやって来た。
ReplyDeleteきまりに従って二年の間を置いて実行された鬱陵島搜討の状況を報告いたします。今年搜討しました三陟營將 河始明が提出した文書によりますと、四月十六日に日本語通詞の崔甲文及び仕事を請け負った水夫ら八十人を四艘の船に分けて乗せ出航しました。二十三日に本島に停泊して七日に本島に到着し宿泊しました。島の様子を調査したところ、左に黄土窟右に屏風岩があり黄土邱尾より中峯までは距離にして五里その途中に田や畑として耕作可能な土地や昔の人が住んでいた住居の跡がありました。前進して浦の入り口にたどり着くと岸壁に献上しました可封の香木が有りましたので削りとった後萍卓邱尾にたどり着きました。そこには大規模な竹林がありましたが竹はまばらでその中で少し大きいものを切り取りました。そして東の長沙邱尾にたどり着くと竹林が岸壁にあるのを望見しましたがこれが小竹入島です。
この後の文は問題なさそうです。
Gerry,
ReplyDeletePlease correct those bold faced sentences which Yabutarou told me and my English too, thank you.
This is a report of the Ulleundo inspection which was conducted very 3 year ( 2 years between inspections) by the rule. This year, Samcheok Commander Ha Si-myeong (河始明) reported that on April 16th, he led Japanese interpretor Choi Gap-mun (崔甲文) and eighty people, including contracted sailors, boarded four ships, and reached Ulleungdo on April 23th. Surveying the geography of the island, they saw Hwangto Cave (黄土窟 - "Golden Clay Cave") on the left and and Byeongpung Rock (屛風巖 - "Folding Screen Rock") on the right.
The distance from Hwangto-gumi (黄土龜尾 - "Golden Clay Cove") toward the central peak is five ri, and on halfway, there was an area where fields and paddies could be cultivated. There were also old foundations of dwellings. From there they advanced to the the cove entrance, where there was a cliff with juniper trees on top that which we sealed and presented to the king, so they harvested them. Afterwards, they went to Pyeongtak-gumi (萍卓邱尾 -"High Duckweed Cove"), where there was a grove of large bamboo. The bamboo had been thinned out, but they harvested the larger ones among them. Then they headed east to Jangsa-gumi (長沙邱尾), where they saw a bamboo grove on top of the cliff in a distance, and it is a "小竹入島".
They thoroughly inspected the island and its interior for three days. The circumference of the island is about eighty or ninety ri, and it is all rock mountains. The trees on the island include mulberry, pinenut, paulownia, elm, juniper, and hazelnut. The birds on the island include crow, sparrow, sea gull, and quail. The creeping animals are cats and rats. The sea roducts include brown seaweed, abalone, and various fish.
Yabutarouさん、ありがとうございました。
Great, yabutarou01 and Kaneganese!
ReplyDeleteKaneganese,
ReplyDeleteIt is more than 5 ri from Hwangto Cove to the central peak, so I think that sentence was saying "...five ri from Hwangto Cove on the way to the central peak..."?
Also, isn't 小竹 part of the previous sentence, and 入島 the start of a new one? Isn't the second sentence saying that they went into the island (入島) and expored its interior for three days?
I am at school, so I will not be able to edit the 1807 report until this evening.
Wow! It is cold here in Korea this morning. Take care.
Yabutarouさん
ReplyDelete"自黃土邱尾至中峯爲五里而中有可墾田..."
について、この五里は黃土邱尾から中峯までの距離にしては短いのでは、とGerryから質問がありました（実際は台霞港から聖人峰まで約6.5ｋｍ。5里=2kmのところに台地があって、そこに人家があるとしたら確かに当てはまります。）。いかが思われますか?まあ、他の報告書でも30里になっていたり、必ずしも検察官の距離感覚は当てにはなりませんけれど。漢文の文法上、可墾田が5里の所に在る、と訳すことは出来ないのでしょうか?
また、
"竹田在於壁上俱是小竹入島三日詳察島內則周回殆近"
について、小竹と入島はそれぞれまえと後ろにつく別のセンテンスではないか、との質問があり、（私も最初そう解釈したのですが）如何でしょうか? 23日に島に到着して27日に半島へ帰港しているので、23－25の3日間島を探索して26－27日かけて航海した、と考えると計算はあうのですが。文法上そう訳すことはおかしいでしょうか?小竹入島と訳すかどうかで、竹嶼の事を書いているのかどうか問題になるのでこちらは特に重要かと思われます。ご意見お聞かせ下さい。
Gerry,
I asked Yabutarou about your question. We'll see his opinion. I didn't think carefully when I posted it since I was really tired last night. Sorry about that.
But yes, it makes more sense since it is almost 6.5km from 台霞港 to 聖人峰 and there is a tableland 2km from 台霞港 in 1918 map. And as for 小竹入島, at first I translated in a same way with you since they reached to Ulleundo om 23th and went back to mainland on 27th already. So 3 days inspection makes perfect sence. But I think it is posible for both way. Anyway, it is a very important sentence for this issue if it means "小竹入島" since it sounds like a Jukdo, so we should discuss more before we decide.
The yesterday's news reported that "Here comes the Winter Shogun!". It's really cold here in Tokyo, too. (Though I still spend without heater.)
Hi Kaneganese,
ReplyDeleteThe 1907 report said that it was 30 ri from Hwangto Cove to the central peak, so 5 ri would not be even halfway.
As I said before, the map of Ulleungdo in the Samcheok Museum seemed to suggest that there was a place on Ulleungdo's Jukdo called Jangsa-gumi (長沙仇味), which means Jangsa Cove. If you look at the map HERE, you will notice that the small of the east shore (probably Jukdo) has a little cove-like shape to it, which you would see more clearly if the map were map were clearer. Maybe, that was Jangsa-gumi, even though other maps show Jangsa-gumi on the shore of Ulleungdo, and they just looked at the short bamboo on the island from a distance? Anyway, I am just guessing out loud here, but, in my opinion, 小竹入島 sounds awkward.
小竹入島は完全な私の間違いです。中途半端なところで文をコピーしてしてしまったようです。。
ReplyDelete五里については、うーんどうでしょう。。文法的にはわたしので間違ってないと思いますが。。。
ReplyDeleteIt is bit off the topic that 1827 and 1831 Inspection report seems to be succeed on the style of the report on 1694 by 張漢相､his report seems to be literature model after the following reports and maps like 1827 or 1831 and so on...
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Gerry,
ReplyDeleteYabutarou thinks 小竹入島 should be read as you said.
BTW, your opinion of the place on Ulleungdo's Jukdo called Jangsa-gumi (長沙仇味) in the map of Ulleungdo in the Samcheok Museum sounds very interesting. When I saw the picture of the ladder on Jukdo in your post, "Nice picture of Ulleungdo's Jukdo (Usando)" the 12th photo shows there are some people who are not on the ladder but on the shore at the bottom of Jukdo. I can't clearly see, but I think it is possible that there is a shore on which at least few people can stand. But, 長沙 itself means long beach, so I first thought it is today's 沙洞 since 1902 Japanese MOFA report says it is not a rocky and they can anchor the ship. (But you can't see Jukdo from there.) Where do you think 長沙仇味 is?
And as for 5里, I think mathematically, you are right. Actually, it was the reason I translated the way it can mean in both way, but as Yabutarou says, gramatically, it should be the distance of 黃土邱尾～中峯. I've noticed about description of 30-ri in 1831 report, too. But 30-ri( = 12km) for 黃土邱尾～中峯 is too long, since the distance from 台霞港 to 聖人峰 is about 6.5ｋｍ. So I think the sence of distance of Choson officials are not always accurate, especially those who didn't climb up to Central Peak as Lee did in 1882. Anyway, I think we should write both or at least suggest it can mean in both way.
屛風巖
ReplyDeleteTourist Sign board at Mullueng valley, they said Screen rock like this ;http://www.panoramio.com/photo/26769069
I think it is the cliff nearby Taeha today.
長沙仇味
It maybe around 長輿洞 and 沙洞 today？
都蔵仇味 and (萍卓邱尾("High Duckweed Cove")
Any hint what named after?
http://maps.google.co.jp/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=ja&msa=0&msid=110845156839716248106.00047370f0388a6b7548b&ll=37.51136,130.869827&spn=0.196625,0.299377&z=11
Kaneganese;
ReplyDelete黄土邱尾～中峯. I've noticed about description of 30-ri in 1831 report, too. But 30-ri( = 12km) for 黃土邱尾～中峯 is too long, since the distance from 台霞港 to 聖人峰 is about 6.5ｋｍ. So I think the sence of distance of Choson officials are not always accurate,
I think they would calculate 1ri for 200m. I dont know why, although we know 1 ri arout 400m. This is the calculation list here;
https://sites.google.com/site/takeshimaliancourt/Home/1ri-0-4km-or-0-2km-by-inspector
GTOMR,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the image of Folding Screen Rock. It does look like folding screen. And yes, they could have calculated 1 ri as 200m or simply copied others' description.
BTW, I've noticed that there are some places named after 観音 on Ulleungdo in the photos you have linked previously. Who brought Buddhism to Ulleungdo? Japanese?