Note 112 — INLEIDING.

“Fifty years previous to the Manchu conquests, Japan had overrun Corea in a war of pure conquest; and though, with Chinese assistance, she was ultimately driven out, she never abandoned her foothold in the port of Fusan, which has always remained, under the daïmiös of Tsushima, as a port of commercial intercommunication” (Parker, China Past and Present, bl. 340).