1870.A vocabulary of proper names, in Chinese and English, of places, persons, tribes, and sects, in China, Japan, Corea, Annam, Siam, Burmah, the Str

A vocabulary of proper names, in Chinese and English, of places, persons, tribes, and sects, in China, Japan, Corea, Annam, Siam, Burmah, the Straits and adjacent countries (1870)
Author: Smith, F. Porter (Frederick Porter), 1833-1888
Publisher: Shanghai, Presbyterian mission press
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text: sea of japan
吉林 kirin
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Kih-Jin, Kirin, or Ghirin, a large country to the N.E. of Shingking, bordering on the Sea of Japan , and the Gulf of Tartary. It is bounded on N.by the Hing Ngan Ling, or Daourian Mountains, E. and N.E. by the ocean, S.E. by Corea, and the Palisade which devides it from Shingking, and W. by Mongolia and Tsisihar. It is devided into three ting departments, namely, Kirin ula, Petune ula, and Changh'm. This extensive region is thinly peopled by Manchus, who live by fishing and hunting.

小東洋　
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Siau-tung-yang, the Sea of Japan. See Tung yang

Eastern Ocean東洋＝Pacific Ocean, including the Yellow Sea, the strait of Corea and the Sea of japan.
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Tung yang, the "Eastern Ocean," or the Pacific Ocean, including the Yellow Sea, the strait of Corea and the Sea of japan. This name is often applied to Japan and the Japanese. This name also occurs as the old name of Ning-teh hien in Fukien province.

東海 Eastern Sea　South east coast of china
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Tung hai, the "Eastern Sea," off the south-east coast of China. This was formerly the name of the present Yen-ching hien in Shantung.

黄海Yellow Sea
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黄海　Hwang hai.　This is a doubtful name met with in later Chinese composition and re-ferred to the Tung yang, or Yellow Sea. This was anciently called the 渤海、 puh-hai,being the point at which in the time of Yu the 逆河. Nih-bo, formed by the conjunction of the nine stream of the Ho, or Hwang Ha, pointed its waters into the "Turbid sea."


*Aye, this book published on 1870, it is earlier than Japan annexed Korea on 1910. So Korean claim which "the name of Sea of Japan established under the colonial rule of Korea", is distorture. Japan and Korea deveides their name, one is Sea of Japan ,the oher is Strait of Korea (and East Korean gulf-Broughton bay)