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![]() An 18th-century Chinese painting depicting a naval battle between wokou pirates and the Chinese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chinese | 倭寇 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hangul | 왜구 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hanja | 倭寇 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kanji | 倭寇 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kana | わこう | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wokou (Chinese: 倭寇; pinyin: Wōkòu; Japanese: 倭寇; Hepburn: Wakō; Korean: 왜구; Hanja: 倭寇; RR: Waegu), which translates to "Japanese pirates", were pirates who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th century to the 17th century.[1][2] The wokou were made of various ethnicities of East Asian ancestry, which varied over time and raided the mainland from islands in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea.[3] Wokou activity in Korea declined after the Treaty of Gyehae in 1443[1] but continued in Ming China and peaked during the Jiajing wokou raids in the mid-16th century. Chinese reprisals and strong clamp-downs on pirates by Japanese authorities saw the wokou disappear by the 17th century.
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