1736.Royaulme de Coree. Dh halde.

Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise, enrichie des cartes générales et particulieres de ces pays, de la carte générale et des cartes particulieres du Thibet, & de la Corée; & ornée d'un grand nombre de figures & de vignettes gravées en tailledouce (1736)

Although D'anville's Carte de Royaulme de Coree describes "Mer du Coree" on east coast of Corean Peninsula, they use "Mer Du Japon(Sea of Japan) on the artiles.

Volume Ⅳ Royaulme de Coree
PDF P170 http://www.archive.org/details/descriptiongog04duha

Après avoir fait ces 8o. lys à l'Eft, nous trouvâmes que la valée s'élargiflbit
confidérablement, 6c qu'elle formoit une plaine de plus d'une lieue
de diamètre. Nous traversâmes cette plaine en tournant vers leNord-Oueil,
6c nous pafsâmes la rivière : nous vîmes fur fes bords quantité de grofles pièces
de bois propres à bâtir, la plupart defapin: on les fait defcendre fur
cette rivière dans le tems qu'elle eft le plus fournie d'eau jufques vers la mer
du Japon: puis on les tranfporte dans une autre rivière, & en les faifant
floteriur l'eau, on les conduit jufqu'à une journée de Peking. C'eif ce qui
fait que le bois à bâtir n'y eft pas cher, quoiqu'il s'en fifle une grofle confommation
, parceque les charpentes des maifons font extrêmement fournies.


PDF 538
A Corée , qu'on peut appeller avec raifon la Cherfonefe de la Chine , puifqu'elle lui efi: contigue & triburaire, eftune grande peninfule qui s'avance en forme de cap dans la Mer orientale, entre la Chine & le Japon. La Mer du Japon la baigne à l'Orient ; le Golphe de Leao tong la fépare des Provinces de Pé tche li & de Chan tong du côté de l'Occident. Au Nord elle confine avec le pays
deNiutche (a) : elle a la grande Mer au Midi; & le fleuve Ta lou, qui la borne entre l'Occidentl & le Nord, & la diflingue du Leao tong. Elle a I200. lys {h) d'étendue d'Orient en Occident, & deux-mille-deuxà trois-cens lys du Septentrion au Midi.
La Corée a été autrefois la demeure de différens peuples , dont les principaux étoient les Mé , les Kao kiuli , les Han , & ces derniers fe partageoient encore en trois efpeces : fçavoir les Ma han , les Pien han , ..................

Under waｔer Geographiy Sea of Japan

Japan Hydrographic official site.


Japan Coast Guard official Site


From:Japan Coast Guard official Site


Japan Coast guard website

The description landing on Dagelet,H.M.S Actaeon ,1859.

Dagelet Island Chart ,H.M.S Actaeon's survery (UKHO Ref:D7467)
There are Boussole Rock(Jukdo) and Seal Point(south Cape) on H.M.S Actaeon's chart of Dagelet 1859. (UKHO Ref: D7467). Also description of "Sea of Japan"


And U.K Hydro office replied as follows;
I have located the survey conducted by HMS Actaeon in 1859 of Dagelet Island (UKHO Ref: D7467), low resolution images attached, and reviewed several Sailing Directions including the China Pilot first edition (1855); second edition (1858), third edition (1861) and fourth edition (1864). It would appear that details from HMS Actaeon's work are not included until the 1864 Edition.




The description in the secondary source, by Blankey William about landing on Dagelet Island , H.M.S Actaeon .1859.
(quote from; On the coast of Cathay and Gipango forty years ago, A record of surveying service in the China Yellow and Japan Seas and the seabord of Korea and Manchuria,
Blakeney, William, R.N 1902.)

(P191 http://www.archive.org/stream/oncoastscathaya00blakgoog#page/n244/mode/2up)
"The Actaeon have to for a few hours off Dagelet Island, which emerges in solitary grandeur from the floor(2.000 feet deep) of the Japanse Sea, and rises to 4,000 feet above it. It lies 100 miles distant from the mainland of Korea, is clothed with forest from the verge of perpendicular cliffs of 500 feet, and is 20 miles in circumference. On every side were herds of seals, filling the air with sorrowful sounding cries, perhaps from terror at our appearing. We could make no headway through the dense undergrowth. La Perouse discovered this island in 1786, but there is no record of his landing.
A few half-starved Korean fisherman were collecting sea-slugs, etc., for Chinese epicureans, but had only a ramshackleold junk in which to make the passage across a stormy sea in almost perpetual fog. A weild and lonely spot is Dagelet Island.


By the way the book was published on 1902, They use "Korea Strait and Sea of Japan"
See Page 160 for name of the chapter;http://www.archive.org/stream/oncoastscathaya00blakgoog#page/n208/mode/2up

,attached map 1 -p167.
http://www.archive.org/stream/oncoastscathaya00blakgoog#page/n218/mode/2up
attached map2-p346
http://www.archive.org/stream/oncoastscathaya00blakgoog#page/n404/mode/2up

Sea of Japan
Strait of Korea
China Sea

1901-12.Papers on Mollusca of Japan

Papers on Mollusca of Japan (1901-12) by Pilsbry, Henry Augustus, b. 1862

(P236)
Proceedings of the academy of Dagelet Island Now Known as Matsu-shima. A small and little-known island , in the Sea of Japan , east of Corea. See Travels, p.174 Adams visited the island, which is inhabited or at least used as a Haliotis-fishing station by Coreans, on the 28th of June, 1859. It is densely wooded, with a central peak 4,000 feet high. In the Travels, p. 178, a slug "with the mantle covering the whole of its back"(probably Philomycus) and a Zua (Coehlieopa) are mentioned.
In the paper on Japanese Helieidae only two species are given ;
Helix (Camcena) luchuana Sowb. (?).
Helix (Patula) elatior A. Ad.
It is the only locality for the latter species. The identification of H. luhuana is doubtful.

1882.Un Touriste Dans L'extreme Orient

Un Touriste Dans L'extreme Orient 1882
Japon, Chine, Indo-chine et Tonkin (4 Aout 1881-24 Jannier 1882)
Edmondo Cotteau
(PDF P6)
Le 6 aout, nous apercevons a tribord la cote de Coree, sous la forme de haules collines ideues, trop eloignees pour qu'on puisse en distinguer les details.Nous passons beaucoup plus pres, a habord, de la petite ile Dagelet. Il y a quelques annees, un bateau danois y fit naufrage; son equipage pat se refngier sur L'ile Argonaute, indiquee dans ces parages par les anciennes cartes anglaises, n'existe pas

1590-1592. Ignacio Moreira visit Japan

There are the description of "Sea of Japan" in the Historia de las cosas más notables, ritos y costumbres del gran reyno de la China ,published by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza.Second devision Volume 3 was written by Martin Ignacio de Loyola. He did quoted the report about Japan by Ignacio Moreira who visit Japan during 1590-1592 and met Alexandro Valignano during his stay in Japan. Though Ignassio Moreira's Map of Japan is no longer exist, there are many Japanese map based on the information and design by Ignacio Moreira in Europe,e.g. Luis Teixeira and Dudley's map and so on.
said that

・第二部第三巻第12章
中略・・・さて、チナ国は残る第四の側（北部）で長さ五百レグア（約2800KM）におよぶ峻険な山脈によって囲まれている。そしてこの山脈は北東の部分から、ハボン（日本）の海（日本の？）北の方向にあたる）に達するまで、80レグア（約450キロ)の距離に渡り、若干の個所において、自然に切断されている。そこでこの国の巨大な富と無数の人民が（本書の第一部で詳述したように）この部分を閉塞したのである。
（ゴンザレス・メンドーサ　シナ大王国誌　大航海時代　書Ⅶ　岩波書店　P540）
（Later I will put original description）

1880.A Forbidden Land: Voyages to the Corea

A Forbidden Land: Voyages to the Corea (1880)
Ernst Jacob Oppert , Ernst Oppert


Dagelet Description;
(P16-P20)
http://archive.org/stream/aforbiddenlandv02oppegoog#page/n58/mode/2up/search/Dagelet
The third of the large islands lies on the east coast, about forty-five miles distant from the main land, under the 37-25 north lat, and 133-16 long. East, and is called Ollon-to by the natives. On several charts it is erroneously put down as belonging to Japan, which is not the case; generally it is marked Matsushima, while the French give it the name of Dagelet, and the Russians Dagette. It is nearly round, is about twenty-five miles in circumference, but of its interior very little is know to us on account of its steep and rocky approaches and inaccessible shores. Ollon-to is very celebrated in Corea for its great fertility; it is said to produce everything of excellent quality, and of a size so uncommonly large and almost gigantic, that the natives on the continent have finally concluded, and state it as their positive conviction, that and island rearing produce so extraordinary cannot be inhabited by common human beings, but must necessarily be peopled by a race of similarly gigantic size. To compare the farco, the goverment has actually issued a stringent prohibition against people from the mainland settling on the island, to avert any danger which might arise to the mother-coutry from the proximity of such a giant race! An official, with and escort, is indeed sent to Ollon-to from time to time, to see that this order is not violated, and to bring back as much of the produce as can be collected during his short stay there. Coreans of a sceptical turn of mind, however, affirm, and with some show of reason, that there are a good many settlers there in spite of the prohibition, who hide themselves in the woods on the approach of the commission of inspection, which, on its part, does not venture to pursue and capture the fugitives on account of the rumours prevailing.


*Notice "37-25 north lat, and 133-16 long " is french longtitude and calculate for U.K GMT to 37-25 north lat, and 130.56 long on GMT (-2°20' difference between Grinidge and paris)