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Seong Dae-jung , who participated in the 11th Tongsinsa of the late Joseon Dynasty(1763) , demonstrates various perceptions of Japan through ~ 日本錄~ (Il bonrok) and ~춤城雜 記~ (Cheongseongjapgi). Seong Dae-jung overcame the limitations of his status as child of a concubine and established his own awareness of the country of Japan by interacting with various scholars. Seong Dae-jung , who had more vivid knowledge of Japan than anyone else under the pride that he has been involved in the "Tongsinsa" from generation to generation, found information about Japan and learned about it by reading the previous book. In addition, after visiting Japan he developed a sense of foreign countries by listening to the vivid stories of various people who had been to China as members of the ‘ Yeonam Group'. As seen above, ~홈城雜記~ (Cheongseongjapgi) is a book containing miscellaneous records, and various records related to Japan can be found. He mentioned "geumsi(今市)，" a place from the Japanese fiction "Samrangjeon," which was popular in Joseon at that time, and introduced "野談" of Japan (an unofficial historical tale) in order to directly reveal his hostility toward Japan after the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592. In addition, he wrote an interesting description of the first encounter between Ryu Seong-ryong and Admiral Yi Sun-sin, and described absorbingly the performance of Yi Sun-shin, who played an essential role in the Japanese War. As such , it was confirmed that in W 좁城雜 記Jl (Cheongseongjapgi) there were many records that were difficult to leave in the official works such as "Ilbonrok". In addition, there is a great literary significance since there are either some essays containing fictional factor like ghost stories which are related to the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592 , or unofficial tales that are difficult to appear in history.

This article studied the concept of the expansion of the nation-wide imaginative geography abroad during the Joseon Ðynasty. 1 have looked into the case of a Tongsinsa envoy to Japan. The results are summarized as follows. First , as a prerequisite, there are two characteristics of Joseon’s imaginative geography as revealed by the late Joseon’ s 5jJhak scholars. One is the interaction of human geography and physical geography. The other is the interaction of ideology and practicality. Representatives of the human geography were roads and cities. The representatives of physical geography were mountains and rivers. It was to explain all of the geography of the land with these components. Also , the ideological identity was based on a feng shui geographical thought, symbolized by the Baekdu-Daegan. The practical aspect was to use a network of mountains , rivers, roads , and cities as the basis for grasping the national geography of reality. 1t also referred to the political approach and used by the kingship. Second, Korea’ s identity of national imaginative geography has expanded internationally too. It was a spatial projection of historical diplomatic relations between Korea and China , called Sadae Djplomacy. 1n relation to Japan , it was a projection of the relationship between Joseon as older brother, and Japan as younger brother. The former specifically placed Kunlun Mountain , the ancestor of Chinese mountains , as well as the ancestor of Baekdu Mountain. The latter was realized by adding Mt. Baekdu as the ancestor mountain of Mt. Fuji , Japanese landmark mountain. This fact is found in the contents of the “ Haehaeng Chongjae" , records of Tonsinsa. 1n addition , special imagnative geography of Tsushima, which is located in a geopolitically obscure position as a border area, was also revealed. Tsushima was recognized as a direct reign under Baekdu - Daegan.