Jeongyu War
When peace talks collapsed, Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent his armies again. The fighting lasted until his death the following year.
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After Pyongyang was retaken, Ming and Japan negotiated. Toyotomi Hideyoshi demanded a Ming princess as consort for the Japanese emperor, the cession of the four southern provinces of Joseon, and the reopening of licensed tally trade. Ming offered only to invest him as "King of Japan" in 1596, and the talks collapsed.
In 1597 some 140,000 Japanese troops crossed again. After Won Gyun’s fleet was destroyed at Chilcheollyang in the seventh month, they pushed into Jeolla, took Namwon in the eighth month and reached Jeonju. In the ninth month, however, they were halted by the allies at Jiksan and beaten at sea by Yi Sun-sin at Myeongnyang, and fell back south, holding out in coastal forts at Ulsan, Suncheon and elsewhere.
When Hideyoshi died in the eighth month of 1598 the Japanese began to withdraw, and the war ended with the Battle of Noryang in the eleventh month. Many Koreans were carried off as captives; the potters among them had a lasting influence on Japanese ceramics.
