Hideyoshi's Peace Negotiations with Ming

1593

After the military stalemate in Korea, Japanese and Chinese negotiators began talks on the terms of withdrawal. The negotiations were marred by mutual deception; interpreters on both sides sometimes invented entire messages. Hideyoshi, enraged when he finally learned the Ming position, would launch a second invasion in 1597. Interpreters on both sides invented messages, producing one of East Asian diplomacy's most farcical episodes.