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[BUNJANG] 1904 Russo-Japanese War Postal History: Korean Busan Origin Japanese Military Mail / 1904๋…„ - ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์ „์Ÿ๊ธฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ถ€์‚ฐ ๋ฐœ์‹  ์ผ๋ณธ๊ตฐ ์ „์‹œ ์ƒํ™ฉ ๊ด€๋ จ ์‹ค์ฒด

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### Historical Document: 1904 Russo-Japanese War Postal History

This is a rare and historically significant original postcard (entires) sent from Busan, Korea during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. It provides direct insight into the Japanese military presence and wartime conditions at the time.

**Key Details:**

* **Date:** July 22, Meiji 37 (1904)
* **Origin:** Busan Post Office, Korean Empire
* **Destination:** Nomura Yataro, Soka-gun, Nara Prefecture, Empire of Japan
* **Item:** Blue-bordered 1ยฝ sen Chrysanthemum postal card (Blue Frame Kiku Postcard)
* **Content:** Original handwritten ink letter in traditional cursive script, with a perfectly preserved "Maruichi" type postmark.

**Historical Context:**

1904 marked the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, a pivotal moment where Japan used the Korean Empire as a base to confront Russia. Korea became a battleground for imperial powers, and Busan served as a crucial military, logistical, and communication hub connecting the mainland to the front lines.

**Significance as Postal History:**

Original postcards used as military and administrative communication tools during this turbulent period, preserved in their entirety without damage, are exceptionally rare and hold immense academic and archival value.

**Authenticity and Timestamp:**

The clearly stamped "Korea Busan" Maruichi postmark and the date "July 22, Meiji 37 (1904)" serve as an undeniable timestamp. This is an irrefutable piece of evidence of circulation in 1904, boasting complete originality that cannot be forged or altered.

**First-hand Account of Wartime Conditions:**

The letter's content, including phrases like, "Since overcoming the difficult April, cultivated land and houses have also suffered damage...", vividly testifies to the hardships faced by local Korean residents and infrastructure, as well as the urgent situation on the front lines during the war.

This is more than just a simple greeting card; it is an irreplaceable "smoking gun" record capturing the horrors of the early Russo-Japanese War in Korea and the impact on civilians.

**Rarity and Uniqueness:**

This artifact, originating from the Japanese garrison and bases in Korea during the 1904 Russo-Japanese War and sent to the mainland, meets the criteria for museum-grade quality due to its historical weight and excellent condition (clear stamp, postmark, and handwritten text).

It is a singular piece of historical evidence, uniquely combining a historical event (Russo-Japanese War), a specific location (Busan), a precise date (July 22, 1904), and a handwritten account of wartime atrocities. It is a top-tier collectible destined for significant value in future specialized auctions and premium markets.

1904๋…„ - ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์ „์Ÿ๊ธฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ถ€์‚ฐ ๋ฐœ์‹  ์ผ๋ณธ๊ตฐ ์ „์‹œ ์ƒํ™ฉ ๊ด€๋ จ ์‹ค์ฒด

๋ฉ”์ด์ง€ 37๋…„(1904๋…„) ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์ „์Ÿ๊ธฐ 'ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ถ€์‚ฐ' ๋ฐœ์‹  ์ผ๋ณธ๊ตฐยท์ „์‹œ ์ƒํ™ฉ ๊ด€๋ จ ์œกํ•„ ๋ฌต์„œ ์šฐํŽธ์—ฝ์„œ ์—”ํƒ€์ด์–ด

๋ฐœํ–‰ ๋ฐ ๋ฐœ์†ก ์ผ์ž: ๋ฉ”์ด์ง€ 37๋…„(1904๋…„) 7์›” 22์ผ

๋ฐœ์†ก์ง€/์ˆ˜์‹ ์ง€: ๋Œ€ํ•œ๊ตญ์ œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ถ€์‚ฐ(้‡œๅฑฑ) ์šฐ์ฒด๊ตญ ๋ฐœ์‹  โž” ์ผ๋ณธ ์ œ๊ตญ ๋‚˜๋ผํ˜„(ๅฅˆ่‰ฏ็ธฃ) ์†Œ์นด๋ฏธ๊ตฐ(ๆทปไธŠ้ƒก) ์ˆ˜์‹  (๋…ธ๋ฌด๋ผ ์•ผํƒ€๋กœ ๆฎฟ)

ํ˜•ํƒœ ๋ฐ ์žฌ์งˆ: ์ฒญ์ƒ‰ ํ…Œ๋‘๋ฆฌ 1์ „ 5๋ฆฌ(1ยฝ) ๊ตญํ™” ๋ฌธ์–‘ ์šฐํŽธ์—ฝ์„œ (์ฒญํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„ ่Š์—ฝ์„œ), ์ „ํ†ต ์ดˆ์„œ์ฒด ์œกํ•„ ์„œ๊ฐ„๋ฌธ ๋ฐ ๋งˆ๋ฃจ์ด์น˜(ไธธไธ€)ํ˜• ์†Œ์ธ ์™„๋ฒฝ ๋ณด์กด

์‹œ๋Œ€์  ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ ๋ฐ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ์‹œ๊ธฐ
๋Ÿฌ์ผ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ๋ฐœ๋ฐœ๊ณผ ํ•œ๋ฐ˜๋„ (1904๋…„):
๋ฉ”์ด์ง€ 37๋…„(1904๋…„)์€ ์ผ๋ณธ์ด ๋Œ€ํ•œ์ œ๊ตญ์„ ๋ฐœํŒ ์‚ผ์•„ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์™€ ๊ฒฉ๋Œํ•œ ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์ „์Ÿ์ด ๋ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ์ „ํ™˜์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฐ˜๋„๋Š” ์ œ๊ตญ์ฃผ์˜ ์—ด๊ฐ•์˜ ๊ฐ์ถ•์žฅ์ด์ž ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ์ตœ์ „์„ ์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ถ€์‚ฐ์€ ๋ณธํ† ์™€ ์ „์„ ์„ ์ž‡๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌยท๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜ยทํ†ต์‹  ๊ฑฐ์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ „์‹œ ์‹ค์ฒด์ฆ(Postal History)์œผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์œ„์ƒ:
๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ„ ์ด์„ฑ์ด ์šธ๋ฆฌ๋˜ ๊ฒฉ๋™์˜ ํ˜„์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ตฐ์‚ฌ์ ยทํ–‰์ •์  ํ†ต์‹  ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ ์“ฐ์ธ ์šฐํŽธ์—ฝ์„œ๊ฐ€ ํ›ผ์† ์—†์ด ์›ํ˜• ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ(์—”ํƒ€์ด์–ด) ๋ณด์กด๋œ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋Š” ํ•™์ˆ ์ ยท์‚ฌ๋ฃŒ์  ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ทน์†Œ์ˆ˜์— ๋ถˆ๊ณผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ํƒ€์ž„์Šคํƒฌํ”„์™€ ์†Œ์ธ์˜ ์ง„์ •์„ฑ

์—ฝ์„œ ์ƒ๋‹จ์— ์„ ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚ ์ธ๋œ '้Ÿ“ๅœ‹ ้‡œๅฑฑ(ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ถ€์‚ฐ)' ๋งˆ๋ฃจ์ด์น˜ํ˜• ์†Œ์ธ๊ณผ 'ๆ˜Žๆฒปไธ‰ไธƒๅนดไธƒๆœˆไบŒๅไบŒๆ—ฅ(๋ฉ”์ด์ง€ 37๋…„ 7์›” 22์ผ)'์˜ ๋‚ ์งœ๋Š” ์˜ค์ฐจ ์—†๋Š” ํƒ€์ž„์Šคํƒฌํ”„ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1904๋…„ ๋‹น์‹œ ํ˜„์žฅ์—์„œ ์œ ํ†ต๋œ ์‹ค๋ฌผ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์„œ ์œ„์กฐ๋‚˜ ๋ณ€์กฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์˜ค๋ฆฌ์ง€๋„๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ์ž๋ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ „์‹œ ์ฐธ์ƒ๊ณผ ํ˜„์žฅ์˜ ์œกํ•„ ์ฆ์–ธ (๋ณธ๋ฌธ ๋‚ด์šฉ)

์„œ๊ฐ„๋ฌธ ๋ณธ๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” "๋น„์ƒ ๊ณค๋ž€์˜ 4์›”์„ ๋ŒํŒŒํ•œ ์ด๋ž˜, ๊ฒฝ์ž‘์ง€์™€ ๊ฐ€์˜ฅ ๋“ฑ๋„ ์†ํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ž…์–ดโ€ฆ"๋ผ๋Š” ๊ตฌ์ ˆ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด, ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ์†Œ์šฉ๋Œ์ด ์†์—์„œ ํ•œ๋ฐ˜๋„ ํ˜„์ง€ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์‹œ์„ค์ด ์ž…์€ ํ”ผํ•ด ๋ฐ ์ „์„ ์˜ ๊ธด๋ฐ•ํ•œ ์–‘์ƒ์„ ์ƒ์ƒํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฆ์–ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์•ˆ๋ถ€ ์—ฝ์„œ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด, ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์ „์Ÿ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ํ•œ๋ฐ˜๋„ ์ฃผ๋‘” ๊ณผ์ •์˜ ์ฐธํ˜นํ•จ๊ณผ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ„ ํ”ผํ•ด ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•œ ๋Œ€์ฒด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ '์Šค๋ชจํ‚น ๊ฑด' ๊ธฐ๋ก๋ฌผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํฌ์†Œ์„ฑ (Rarity):
1904๋…„ ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์ „์Ÿ ๋‹น์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฐ˜๋„ ๋‚ด ์ฃผ๋‘”๊ตฐ ๋ฐ ๊ฑฐ์ ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์†ก๋˜์–ด ๋ณธํ† ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•œ ์‹ค์ฒด์ฆ ์ค‘, ๋‚ด์šฉ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋ณด์กด ์ƒํƒœ(์šฐํ‘œ, ์†Œ์ธ, ์œกํ•„ ๋ฌต์„œ์˜ ์„ ๋ช…ํ•จ)๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ๋ฌผ์€ ๋ฎค์ง€์—„ ํด๋ž˜์Šค(Museum-grade)์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋Œ€์ฒด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ (Uniqueness):
์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ์‚ฌ๊ฑด(๋Ÿฌ์ผ์ „์Ÿ), ๊ตฌ์ฒด์  ์žฅ์†Œ(๋ถ€์‚ฐ), ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๋‚ ์งœ(1904๋…„ 7์›” 22์ผ), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ์ฐธ์ƒ์„ ๋‹ด์€ ์œกํ•„ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ด ์œ ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋œ ๋‹จ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์‹ค๋ฌผ ์‚ฌ๋ฃŒ๋กœ์„œ, ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ „๋ฌธ ๊ฒฝ๋งค๋‚˜ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„ ๋งˆ์ผ“์—์„œ ๋…๋ณด์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ตœ์ƒ๊ธ‰ ์ปฌ๋ ‰ํ„ฐ๋ธ”(Collectible) ์œ ๋ฌผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ˆ˜์›์—ญ ๋ถ€๊ทผ์—์„œ ๊ตฌ์ž… ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.^^
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