Chin-guk (English spelling)

Japanese: 辰国 - しんこく（英語表記）Chin‐guk

The name of a country that is said to have existed in the southern part of ancient Korea. The name Jin already appears in the Records of the Grand Historian and the Book of Han, but the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Zhi, "Biography of the Eastern Barbarians," contains a somewhat more detailed record of the country's contents. However, the records in the Records of the Three Kingdoms are extremely fragmentary and contain contradictions, so there has been no consensus among scholars about the existence and nature of this country since ancient times. Shiratori Takuji believes that Jin means Jinhan, and that King Jin was the King of Jinhan. Mikami Tsuguo also interprets King Jin as the monarch of a kind of tribal confederation that was established in the southern part of the peninsula around the 2nd or 3rd century.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

古代朝鮮の南部に存在したとされる国名。辰国という名称はすでに《史記》《漢書》に見えるが，その内容についてやや詳細な記録を残しているのは《三国志》魏志東夷列伝である。ところが《三国志》の記載がきわめて断片的で，矛盾した個所もあるため，古来この国の存在，性格については諸家の見解が一定しない。白鳥庫吉は辰国は辰韓のことであり，辰王は辰韓王であるとした。三上次男も辰王は2～3世紀ころ半島南部に成立した一種の部族連合国家の君主であったと解釈している。

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