Last updated: December 15, 2025

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The Pilgrim’s Progress in Chosŏn Korea: A Bibliographic Note

• by Jeonghun Choi (PhD Student, HEAL, Harvard)
• Password: korlit213studentprojects
• Assignment from KORLIT 213 Reading Materiality: Hands-on Learning of Korean Rare Books (Fall 2021, Harvard University)

WANPANBON CULTURE CENTER 완판본문화관

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF KOREA'S ONLINE CURATION OF KOREAN RARE BOOKS (in Korean) 

Books Printed by the Chosŏn Court

Royal Seals

Astronomy and Mathematics of Chosŏn Korea

Epidemics and Medical Books of Chosŏn Korea

Chosŏn-dynasty Books pertaining to education of women, literary women, books authored by women

Books pertaining to Chosŏn embassies to Japan (Chosŏn t'ongsinsa 朝鮮通信使)

Cultural Exchange between Chosŏn and Qing Literati

Publishers in Modern Korea

Built and Natural Environments in the Literature of Chosŏn Korea

Koryŏ and Chosŏn Books Printed with Metal Movable Type

Dictionaries and Scholarly Apparatuses of Chosŏn Korea

Geography Books of Chosŏn Korea

Inaugural issues of modern Korean periodicals

Ttakchipon Novels

Highlights of the National Library of Korea

Exhibitions related to Premodern Korea 

Stories of Clay: Discovering Chosŏn Korean Potters in Tokugawa Japan

• "Potters and their families were among the many Chosŏn Dynasty Koreans taken to Japan by the armies of Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the devastating Imjin War (1592-1598). There are few written records about these potters. In addition, their work has often been overshadowed by the importance of Chinese influences in the development of Japanese pottery. Yet these Korean artisans founded ceramic traditions that continue to the present day. Who were they? What were their lives like? What types of pottery did they produce, and what was their legacy?
• "Combining the study of heirloom pieces and sherds, together with documentary evidence, “Stories of Clay” traces the experiences of different groups of Korean potters in Tokugawa-period Japan after the Imjin War. Concentrating on the first half of the seventeenth century and examining elite and everyday items, this virtual exhibition and digital history project will challenge the impression that tea wares were the most important output of the Korean potters in Japan. It will contribute to the ongoing art historical reassessment of Korean influence on Japanese ceramics. The potters and their complex relationships with their Japanese patron-captors also shed light on the regional aftermath of the Imjin War, which was the largest conflict of the sixteenth-century world.
• "Curated by Rebekah Clements and Seung Yeon Sang as part of the European Research Council Horizon2020 project “Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598” (grant agreement No 758347Abre en nueva ventana)."