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When the Chosun Diplomatic Delegation (Chosun Tongsinsa) stayed in Osaka on September 8th, Mr. Mizutar and his son, coming from Kumamoto, visited the delegation. The visitors exchanged the gifts of poems and conversations in literary Chinese with Yu-han Sin, an official literateur, and a group of document clerks for the three envoys, including Baek Gang, Mong-rang Sung, Eun-doo Jang. These collection of written conversations and poems were later scribed down by Mizutari Yasunao into a book titled Hang Hae Hyun Soo Rok. A closer look at 47 Chinese poems in the book, which were composed and read aloud during the visit, reveals frequent references and allusions to Chinese classic scholars. Notably mentioned among these poems are No Yeon, Wee Mann, who travelled thousands of miles to meet Lee Baek, So Sik, and So Sun, Cheon Sa, Yook Son, Sa Young Woon, Woo Owang, Twe Zi Han Yoo, Owang Bal, and others. What is the most fascinating among these is the reference and allusion to the young Wang Bal, because it provides a rare opportunity of glimpsing into how both Japanese and Cho-sun young scholars perceived China and its culture.