Introduction James B. Lewis Part 1: International and Domestic Background 1. Japanese-Korean and Japanese-Chinese Relations in the Sixteenth Century Saeki Kōji 2. Korea’s Pre-war Domestic Situation and Relations with Japan Han Moon Jong 3. Violence, Trade, and Impostors in Korean-Japanese Relations, 1510-1609 Kenneth R. Robinson Part 2: War 4. The Imjin Waeran: Contrasting the First and the Second Invasions of Korea Kitajima Manji 5. Hideyoshi’s View of Chosŏn Korea and Japan-Ming Negotiations Sajima Akiko 6. Post-war Domain Source Material on Hideyoshi’s Invasion of Korea: The Wartime Memoirs of Shimazu Soldiers Murai Shōsuke 7. The Role of the Chosŏn Navy and Major Naval Battles During the Imjin Waeran Yi Min’ung 8. Righteous Army Activity in the Imjin War Nukii Masayuki 9. Ming Grand Strategy and the Intervention in Korea Kenneth M. Swope 10. Wanli China versus Hideyoshi’s Japan: Rethinking China’s Involvement in the Imjin Waeran Harriet Zurndorfer 11. The Celestial Warriors: Military Aid and Abuse during the Korean War, 1592-98 Nam-lin Hur 12: International Relations and the Imjin War James B. Lewis Part 3: Impact and Memory 13. "The Inestimable Benevolence of Saving a Country on the Brink of Ruin": Chosŏn-Ming and Chosŏn-Later Jin Relations in the Seventeenth Century Han Myung-gi 14. Chosŏn Korea and Ming China After the Imjin Waeran: State Rituals in the Later Chosŏn Period Kuwano Eiji 15. War and Cultural Exchange Ha Woo Bong 16. The Imjin Waeran in Korean and Japanese Literatures Choi Gwan 17. Fashioning Womanly Confucian Virtue: The Virtuous Woman in Post-war Literary Discourse Michael Pettid Conclusion James B. Lewis