Eiman

Date of birth and death unknown. Founder of Wiman Joseon. He was from Yan, China, in the early 2nd century BC. According to the Records of the Grand Historian, in 195 BC, when King Lu Wan of Yan rebelled against the Han and was defeated, Wei Man put on a topknot and barbarian clothing, and led over 1,000 people across the water (the Yalu River) to Korea. There he governed the native people and the refugees from Yan and Qi, and established the Wiman Joseon Dynasty in Wang Jiancheng (present-day Pyongyang) as the capital. He became a foreign minister to the governor of Liaodong and ruled over an area of ​​several thousand li, but during the reign of his grandson, Youqu, he incurred the wrath of Emperor Wu of Han, and in 108 BC Wiman Joseon was destroyed and became a prefecture and county of the Han.

[Kousaku Hamada]

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生没年不詳。衛氏朝鮮の建国者。紀元前2世紀初めの中国、燕(えん)の人で、『史記』によれば前195年、燕王の盧綰(ろわん)が漢に背いて敗れるや、衛満は魋結(ついけつ)（さいづち髷(まげ)）をし、蛮夷(ばんい)の服を着て、1000余人を率いて水(はいすい)（鴨緑江(おうりょくこう)）を渡り、朝鮮の地に移った。そこで土着民や燕、斉(せい)の亡命者を治め、王険城(おうけんじょう)（現在の平壌(ピョンヤン)）に都を定めて衛氏朝鮮を建てた。遼東(りょうとう)太守の外臣となり、数千里四方を支配したが、孫の右渠(ゆうきょ)の代に漢の武帝の怒りを買い、前108年衛氏朝鮮は滅ぼされ、漢の郡県となった。

［浜田耕策］

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