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Post-War Pattern of Yuan–Japan Relations

Type Event Region East Asia Time 1290–1299

After the 1281 Kōan campaign, the Yuan kept trying to bring Japan to submission, wavering between military threats and diplomatic envoys in the 1290s…

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  1. 1290–1293Yuan dynasty and Goryeo coasts · GoryeoKublai stationed troops and built ships along the Goryeo coast, and continued sending Chan monks such as Ruxi and Ruzhi as imperial envoys to summon Japan. In 1290 about a hundred Goryeo sutra-copying monks responded to the call and went to Dadu; the Goryeo envoy Kim Yu-seong also conveyed a state letter without achieving friendly relations.
  2. 1294Dadu · Yuan dynastyKublai died of illness, and the planned third invasion of Japan was never carried out. The unrecovered manpower of Jiangnan, setbacks in the campaign against Vietnam, and court opposition had already made a large-scale expedition unsustainable.
  3. 1299Kamakura · KantōEmperor Chengzong of Yuan sent the surrendered Southern Song monk Yisan Yining (Yinglinxuan) with a peace letter to Japan, the last major envoy mission after Kōan. After Hōjō Sadatoki received him, the shogunate still refused to submit or establish friendly relations, and Yuan–Japan diplomatic ties remained severed.

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