Jo Hyeong

In 1655 King Hyojong of Joseon sent a mission to the shogunal court of Tokugawa Ietsuna.

[2] This diplomatic mission functioned to the advantage of both the Japanese and the Koreans as a channel for developing a political foundation for trade.

[4] The mission arrived in Japan during the 1st year of Meireki according to in the Japanese calendar in use at that time.

[2] Jo Hyeong was the chief envoy of the Joseon embassy[1] which was received in the shogunate court at Edo from where the delegation were taken in a procession to the Tōshō-gū at Nikkō.

[5] Jo Hyeong's historical significance was confirmed when his mission and his name were specifically mentioned in a widely distributed history published by the Oriental Translation Fund in 1834.

In this grand procession, Jo Hyeong is carried in a chaise lined with a tiger skin. This contemporary impression of the Joseon envoy and his retinue during the 1655 Joseon diplomatic mission to Japan is attributed to Hishikawa Moronobu (1618–1694).