However, during the Joseon dynasty, a variety of swords were used uniformly by Korean soldiers, including but not limited to the hwando ( single edged sabre ), Hwandudaedo, Jedok geom ( literally, the " Admiral's " sword ), and the yedo.

However, the opinion of Joseon soon turned against Japan as many Japanese actions were considered to be too brutal and barbaric including confiscation of lands and drafting civilians for forced labor, even executing those that resisted.

However, Joseon composer Bak Yeon ( 박연 )' s invention of similar but unrelated notation jeongganbo ( 정간보, image ) to notate Korean court music dates back to middle of the 15th century.

However, elderly still dress in hanbok as well as active estates of the remnant of aristocratic families from the Joseon Dynasty.

However, the Joseon period saw the suppression of Buddhism, where Buddhist monks and temples were banned from the cities and confined to the countryside.

" However, he is not usually numbered among the members of the Silhak tradition, which arose much later in the Joseon period.

However, the city became more important with the establishment of the Joseon Dynasty in 1392, when it became the capital city.

However, the most intensely promoted art form in the district is Mungyeong's traditional ceramic craft, which dates to the Joseon period and is still practiced by many master potters in the area.

However, once Hideyoshi ended the bloodline of the Hōjō clan in Japan, he demanded from the Joseon Dynasty in Korea the right of passage to invade China.

However, the kingdom maintained local autonomy until 1404, when Taejong of Joseon placed it under firm central control and brought the Tamna kingdom to an end.

However, by the middle of the Joseon dynasty, there appears to have been a decline in tea drinking except ceremony for anniversary.

" However, for the most part Wiman Joseon prevented direct contact between Jin and China.

However, due to Korea's geographic and political isolation during the Joseon period, Islam had all but disappeared in Korea by the time it was reintroduced in the 20th century.

However, due to the presence of Joseon and Ming ships, the Japanese garrisons in the wajō could not retreat and stayed in the relative safety of their forts.

Out of 500 Japanese ships under Shimazu's command, an estimated 150 were able to make it back to Pusan Harbor ( However, it is said from other Joseon archives and records that Shimazu's remnants were still being fiercely pursued by the Yi Sun-sin's fleet: only 50 ships of Shimazu's Armada ever managed to escape ).

However, Wang Geon's unification in 936 was a more complete unification ( in which only a single state emerged among the people, as opposed to the 7th century CE, when two, Unified Silla and Balhae, emerged ); the people of the Korean Peninsula thereafter remained under a single, unified state ( even changing dynasties, to the Joseon Dynasty, in 1392 CE ) until 1948, when Korea was divided into north and south by Russian and U. S occupation forces.

However, the Sarim faction, whose origin stems from denial of legitimacy of Joseon dynasty, was vulnerable to Hungu's attacks because it questioned legitimacy of King Sejo's usurpation and primarily engaged in the censorate role against the king and ministers.

However, its purpose was to improve the cultural and political stance of Joseon and to recruit gifted officers to run the nation.

However, the Ming Dynasty would be overthrown by Li Zicheng's peasants rebellion, with Beijing captured in 1644 and the last Ming Emperor Chongzhen committing suicide.

However, the peace soon fell apart, and in 1352, the Southern Dynasty evacuated Kyoto, abducting with them Retired ( Northern ) Emperors Emperor Kōgon and Emperor Kōmyō as well as Sukō and the Crown Prince, Imperial Prince Naohito, the son of Emperor Kōgon.

However, the concept pre-dates the naming of these establishments, as evidence suggests commercial food preparation may have existed during the age of the city of Pompeii, and urban sales of prepared foods may have existed in China during the Song Dynasty.

However, his restaurant " Chinois on Main " was named after the term attributed to Richard Wing, who in the 1960s combined French and Chinese cooking at the former Imperial Dynasty restaurant in Hanford, California.

However, their wars with the Jin Dynasty and Tatars had weakened them.

However, the most significant contribution to the formation of Beijing cuisine came from Shandong cuisine, as most chefs from Shandong came to Beijing en masse during the Qing Dynasty.

However, China's first official standing navy was not established until the Southern Song Dynasty in the 12th century, a time when gunpowder was a revolutionary new application to warfare.

However, Zhang was barred from assisting the committee due to his controversial views on apocrypha and his objection to the relegation of Emperor Gengshi's ( r. 23 – 25 ) role in the restoration of the Han Dynasty as lesser than Emperor Guangwu's.

However, it is believed that the year might be in 1375, not in the Yuan Dynasty, but in the 8th year of Emperor Hong Wu.

However during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 AD ), antiquarians collected bronze ritual vessels attributed to the Shang era, some of which bore inscriptions.

However, Shen Kuo alluded to the fact that the Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang written in about 840 AD by Duan Chengshi ( d. 863 ) during the Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ) mentioned inverting the image of a Chinese pagoda tower beside a seashore.

However, Balhae was severely weakened by the 10th century, and the Khitan Liao Dynasty conquered Balhae in 926.

However, this Dynasty became reborn in Cordoba ( Al Andalus, today's Portugal and Spain ) in the form of an Emirate and then a Caliphate, lasting until 1031 AD.

However, to introduce China proper, Winterbotham still used the outdated 15-province system of the Ming Dynasty, which the Qing Dynasty used until 1662.

However, its military power weakened thereafter and, faced with massive rebellions and defeat in wars, the Qing Dynasty declined after the mid-19th century.

However, it is estimated that the Northern Song had a population of some 100 million people, and 200 million by the time of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the later Song Dynasty, after 1127, when it moved its capital south to Lin ' an ( modern Hangzhou, Zhejiang ), is most commonly referred to as " Southern Song Dynasty " ( 南宋 ).

However, it was completely refurbished in 2007 to accommodate 25, 000 spectators for the Centenary of Wangchuk Dynasty rule in Bhutan and also the Coronation Celebrations of the fifth king of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, held on November 6, 2008.

However, it was unable to defeat incursions by the Later Zhou Dynasty between 956 and 958, and ceded all of its land north of the Yangtze River.

However, Imperial Japan was too strong for the Qing Dynasty to cope with, and eventually Li gave Taiwan up.

However, the oldest known landscape art scene tradition in the classical sense of painting is a work by Zhan Ziqian of the Sui Dynasty ( 581 – 618 ).

However, the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty revived it in 1395 when his second son died and two of the prince's concubines were sacrificed.

However, the Chinese Song Dynasty only officially recognized him as Prince of Jiaozhi ( Giao Chỉ Quận Vương ).