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"Flowering of Korean Ceramic Culture in Japan"

War is cruel but sometimes it can be a means for the assimilation and transmission of culture. While there are few cases of complete transplantation of one culture in another land through just one war, through the Japanese invasions the ceramic culture of Korea was fully transplanted to Japan. From the fingertips of the abducted potters and their descendants, the Japanese pottery culture flourished.  
 Dealing with culture shock, the potters were forced to adapt to their new surroundings. Coming into contact with a new culture in a strange land, how did they live, what did they think, and what was their attitude toward life? 
This article attempts to find some answers to these questions and discover clues to explain the cultural exchange that paradoxically accompanied a war.

http://www.koreafocus.or.kr/design2/layout/content_print.asp?group_id=102438

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Here's a "Was" and "Could have been" scenePrince Gwang Hae and Jung Yi - Epi 22 - Safe House Pt. 1(rather lengthy)

The prince is told Jung Yi has been sent quite a distance by Chief Lee in search of white clay, and he orders his men to find her.  Despite the insistence of the prince’s guards to abandon his search for Jung Yi due to the danger from muddy conditions and encroaching nightfall, the prince counters with insisting to find her himself.  The guards accompany him, worried for his safety, and after some time, the prince finds Jung Yi in the woods.  She has slipped down a muddy slope and has sprained her ankle. The relief in finding her shows on his face, though it is coupled with his concern over the injury she has sustained.
He goes to get her, and in doing so, slips and falls, landing on top of her.  He is first surprised, then struck with the awkwardness of the situation as their eyes and lips meet at close proximity. It is what happened when they were youth, only reversed.  It seems he can’t get up fast enough, but in his worry and concern for her, he wastes no time in scolding her, blaming her for her stupidity in getting into this predicament on account of her search for white clay.  She has no recourse but to say, “I’m sorry,” and he swiftly picks her up in his arms, ordering his guards to move aside as he takes her to safety.  Jung Yi, apologetic for the trouble she has caused and clearly uncomfortable to be carried by the prince himself, is forced to acquiesce.   Prince GwangHae puts Jung Yi atop a horse and takes her to a safe house for the night. They talk on the way, and she thanks him, saying that if it weren’t for him, she may not be alive.  The look on his face (which she cannot see) is pensive, as if he’s not one fully deserving of her gratitude. He shares with her that although he’s a prince, he wasn’t able to save his beloved teacher, the one for whom he made the porcelain they’d worked on together.  He calls himself pathetic, being prince over many people yet unable to help as he’d like.  However, since he is able to help Jung Yi like this now, he is grateful.  Jung Yi quietly listens to this humble prince, her heart feeling his hurt and wanting so much to calm his worries.
At the safe house, the prince asks regarding Jung Yi’s sprained ankle, and she assures him it is better than earlier and that he need not worry.  He offers to look at it, but she says that isn’t necessary. He tells her he will be watching over her tonight and suggests she sleep, but she tells him she cannot sleep with him around.  He suggests they talk through the night until she can fall asleep.  What follows is a revealing conversation of the prince expressing his desire to be a normal person like her.  How much simpler and happier would his life be?  Jung Yi asks how he could think that when he is a prince who is envied by many.  He shares that being a prince really is risky business, that it is really not all people think it to be.  She, in turn, tells him that being “normal” isn’t all that great either, with the typical person working hard during the day only to be robbed by the government via taxes and by thieves at night.  Both share the burdens they have to bear as prince and commoner.
“Are you able to sleep now?” he asks, and is told by Jung Yi that it is the same as before...she cannot sleep in his presence.  No sooner does she say that, her eyelids grow heavier until she can hold back sleep no longer.  He watches her as she succumbs to sleep, amused by this stubborn resistance that he records in his heart as one more thing that endears her to him.  And as he watches her, memories flood his mind of them as kids, of her as Tae Pyung, of him wiping the ink off her face in the storeroom, of them playing with the poor children, of her hiding her lips because he ordered it... All these memories cause him to smile and wish they would continue always.  


He reaches for a pillow from the nearby drawer and carefully lays her head upon it.  He then places a blanket over her to keep her warm.  She looked so peaceful lying there that he dared not make a noise, afraid to wake her.  Her hair, in all the commotion of the evening, has become somewhat undone from her usual, tightly pulled back style.  He reaches in and gently moves the strands of hair from her face. He tells himself it would do no harm to stroke her face and gives in to the temptation to do so. Her skin is as soft as it was when he wiped the ink from off her cheek, he thought.  He can’t take his eyes off her, and before long, the urge to kiss her overcomes him.  As long as I don’t wake her, he thinks to himself. He succumbs to that temptation as well, gently leaning in and touching her cheek with his lips.  It is difficult for him, but he knows he must sleep and leave her to hers, so he moves to the wall and falls asleep sitting up.
The prince had shared with her earlier how comfortable he felt with her there in the safe house.  He could get used to this.  He wishes with all his might that he could.

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@stevie8 - Interesting article!  You can't help but feel for those that were abducted in the name of culture.  Such an atrocity.  But what of this news that she wasn't Mrs. Taedo?  Or maybe he was the potter I previously heard he was.  Who's to say the potter husband of Jung Yi/Baek Pa Seon didn't also have awesome martial arts skills, too?  Ah well, the mystery continues to unfold...
@SMP567 - Love the pics you've been posting.  The prince indeed looks strapping in his blue outfit, and his expressions are wonderful - How do you do? vs. How dare you?  Good for those greedy, lackadaisical good-for-nothings (ultimately, recipients of his "How dare you?" expression).

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@stevie8Thank you for disecting the article "Flowering of Korean Ceramic Culture in Japan".In my curiosity, I have done quite a research on " Baek Pa Seon " but only managed to find a few articles that mention her name and the info is not consistent. No photos of her nor her artworks show up on the internet at least as far as I'm concerned.The two main physical places that may have some records about her are Gimhae city in Korea and Arita prefecture in Japan.Even in the drama, everything about Jung is almost fictional. Unlike Gwang Hae Gun, we don't see many historic facts about her in the drama either before or after she goes to Japan.  I wonder what inspired the writer to pick her name and write the plot for GOF.

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Bottle (National Treasure No.1067)
Possessed by National Museum of Korea.

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He said only his theory as it is a professor of history at the University, Sungkyunkwan certainly In my opinion ! Be Careful GOF is mixed with real facts and fictitious .
Then I wonder why professor does not explain , how is it Baek Pa-seon helped the advancement of many new types of pottery that would be claimed as Japanese works of art. She became well-respected in Japan, and there exists a shrine in the city of Arita dedicated to her .
I do not think that Japaneses would have built a sanctuary If really Baek Pa-seon was not important in the history of Korea or Japan !
It 's crazy not ??
Do not forget also that GOF was funded by the government and also recounted A historical figure !
And it is said also of Baek Pa-seon is the first woman to exercise the profession of potter in this dynasty and that in the XVI century the porcelain made by the Joseon Dynasty is evaluated as being that of better quality in Asia (Aka Toyotomi Hideyoshi wants to Jung for her porcelain in "GOF" To say that he had the eye or touch lol )

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