Toi-Invasion

The Toi invasion (Japanese刀伊の入寇, toi no nyūkō ) Toi ( Kor. 되, doe ) was the invasion of the northern Kyushu and Korean dschürdschätische by pirates in 1019. Then meant in Korean "barbarians".

The Toi - pirates came with about 50 ships from the direction of the Korean kingdom of Goryeo and attacked the provinces of Iki, Tsushima and then the Hakata Bay on Kyushu on. They used the island Noko (能 古 岛, noko no shima ) in the bay as a base, Japanese plundered villages and kidnapped Japanese in order to use them for a week as slaves. At this time Fujiwara no Takaie served as head of Dazaifu, the administrative center of Kyūshū. He pulled together soldiers and drove the pirates.

Some of the enemies were captured in Matsuura by the Japanese army and all identified as Koreans. They said they would have guarded the frontier and had been captured by the Toi. However, the Japanese officers they suspected there were a lot of Korean pirates in the Silla period. A few months later reported the envoy Goryeo, Jeong Jaryang (郑子良) to have attacked pirates from Goryeo before Wonsan and saved about 260 Japanese. The two detailed reports of two rescued women, Kura no Iwame and Tajihi no Akomi, remained intact.

The dschürdschätischen pirates lived in what is now North Korea Hamgyŏng -do. They attacked regularly to the east coast of the Korean Peninsula. In particular, Ulleungdo was uninhabited because of the constant attacks. The invasion of 1019 was one of these events.