- Resolving the Three Grievances of the Japanese
- 1 “When the Japanese invaded in 1592, they tried to take over Korea, but failed. This created three kinds of grief for the Japanese.
- 2 The first was not being able to take the capital of Korea.
- 3 The second was that they had to kill so many people.
- 4 The third was that, during the war, Korea learned their method of transplanting rice.
- 5 In this time of the resolution of bitterness and grief, I resolve their first grief by allowing them to take the capital.
- 6 The second is resolved by their not having to kill many people.
- 7 The third is resolved by a three-year drought in Korea that desiccates the ground so badly the harvests fail completely.”
- (JSD Dojeon 5,232)
