Japanese withdrawal from Wangjing
The Ming History records that Japanese forces abandoned Wangjing and fled.
What this does and does not establish
明史/卷20, pinned Wikisource revision 2594636. The passage records a withdrawal, without describing tactics. No attached variant; neighboring campaign entries concern other dates.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- East Asia
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- 萬曆二十一年四月癸卯
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Read ming020.wikitext heading 432 and complete annual passage 434–451. calendar_headers supplied both bounds: Gregorian 1592-12-31 = 萬曆20年11月28日 and Gregorian 1593-12-31 = 萬曆21年閏11月9日. These place regular month 4 within 1593, safely away from either year boundary. Subtracting ten days for Julian numbering preserves AD 1593. The leap month is month 11, not month 4. Original quotation begins at line 438, character 7275.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Ming shi (History of Ming), basic annals
Zhang Tingyu et al., Qing court historians
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
夏四月癸卯，倭棄王京遁。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
In summer, in the fourth month, on guimao, the Japanese abandoned Wangjing and fled.
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Exact source version
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