한국일본학회

The Hangul letters that were used as references of this paper are included in “The Report of Tsushima Head House Library Records of Hangul Letters Sent from Joseon Interpreters” (Nagasaki Prefectural Cultural Assets Investigation Report Vo. 212) published as a part of the Nagasaki Prefectural Tsushima Ethnohistorical Library Project in which the author himself participated as a joint researcher from 2013 to 2014. Owing to the lack of space, perspectives of translation such as the translation method and word selection will be dealt with by analyzing three WAGE(和解) letters to determine the characteristics of translations of Korean letters at that time. Although the letters were addressed to Oda Ikugorou who was in charge of negotiations related to Joseon missions, they were later to be sent to the upper echelon of HAN(藩). The original copy of the letter and WAGE were to be provided proving their importance. Regarding the method according to which WAGE was translated into Japanese, if the Chinese word used in the letter existed in both Korean and Japanese, then the word was used as it is. The Chinese characters used in the original copy were the same as those used in WAGE, and the adverbs were usually translated into Chinese words. Furthermore, evident effort went into translating pure Korean words to serve the intention of the original expression.