Professor Emeritus Kim Moon-gil of Busan University of Foreign Studies further confirms the atrocities committed by Koreans by cutting their ears and noses.
It has been confirmed that the ears and noses of 1,800 people from Ulsan are buried in the Korean Ear Tomb in front of the gate of Yeongguksa Temple in Hidoyoshi, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.
Professor Emeritus Kim Moon-gil of Busan University of Foreign Studies (Director of the Korea-Japan Culture Research Institute) announced on the 22nd that additional Korean tombs had been discovered and emphasized, “We need to strengthen education about the tombs that contain a sad history for our descendants.”
According to Professor Emeritus Kim, in front of the stone pagoda without an inscription erected in the 1400s, in front of the stone pagoda without an inscription, there is a sign saying ‘Tomb of a Thousand People (耳塚)’, which states that Toyotomi Hideyoshi had his generals cut off the ears and noses of enemy soldiers during the Japanese invasions of Korea. and asked them to submit the list. Accordingly, it is recorded that Sagara, the Japanese general, donated 1,800 ears and noses.
Then, where did Sagara get the Korean ears and nose that he cut off? Sagara, who joined Kato Kiyomasa Sajin on April 13, 1593, fought in the Battle of Dongnae Fortress, entered Ulsan, built Ulsan Fortress, and fought. He is known to have committed these atrocities mainly in the Ulsan area.
Professor Emeritus Kim said, “Tadashi Akamine, a local historian living in Oita Prefecture, testified that ‘1,800 Koreans are buried here.’”
The records of Sagara’s ears and nose were recorded by Kiyomasa Kato in his ‘Pure Period’ and ‘Katomunjeon Clean Public Officials’ upon his return to Korea. The number of ears and noses of Korean people is 24,725.
In ‘Joseongi’ by Kazuyoshi Oda, a Japanese general, the number of ears and noses cut by Sagara is specified as dozens of ears and heads in Hamgyeong Province and 35 noses in Namwon Province, and there is a record of cutting 470 people in Ulsan Province.
Professor Emeritus Kim said, “It is written on the information signboard on ‘Gatogi’ that the Sagara (Ulsan people) cut down 1,800 people,” and added, “It is not widely known that there is a ear tomb here. There are unknown ear tombs all over Japan.” “It will be abandoned,” he estimated.
In Japan, tombs of Koreans have been discovered in Kyoto, Fukuoka, Okayama, and Tsushima.
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Source: Donga
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