[Nhcoll-l] Fwd: Tsaulian

[Haas, Carola]

Fascinating discussion!  Thanks for including the characters and the Chinese pronunciation.  I got curious and started looking around and found some publications by an emeritus (but apparently still active) Professor Kimiaki Takahashi who works on maritime history in East Asia (https://researchmap.jp/Map10docu-ment05?lang=en), and had several pubs with maps of Tsushima Island, but without knowing the characters was impossible to search for anything.  Interesting to know it’s actually on the Korean Peninsula, but given that according to Prof Takahashi’s work Tsushima Island has been considered part of Japan for many centuries, that makes sense with the language about actually being in Korea.


Takahashi, K., 2006. Tsushima Island as a Boundary Area. 国際基督教大学学報 3-A, アジア文化研究, (32), pp.27-43.

https://icu.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=2796&file_id=22&file_no=1

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Very interesting!

"Tsaulian" is based on the Chinese pronunciation of 草梁. In Pinying, it would be written as cǎoliáng.

Makiri Sei

On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 1:33 PM Douglas Yanega <dyanega at gmail.com<mailto:dyanega at gmail.com>> wrote:

Well, this seems reasonably definitive, though it is on the Korean mainland opposite Tsushima Island, according to the map on P. 31 of this paper:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309885364_A_Study_on_the_Evolution_of_Korean_Place_Names_Marked_in_Modern_European_Mapsd

It is therefore evidently NOT one of the harbors on Tsushima Island.

Thanks to Quentin for passing this along.

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Tsaulian Harbour is the historical name for Chosan Harbor (Tsaulian is an old British romanization of Chosan 草梁).

The best modern Korean name is Ulsan Hang (Port of Ulsan) or specifically the area near Jangsaengpo, coordinates: approximately 35∘ 31′N,129∘ 22′E (Ulsan Bay, or specifically the northern inner harbor known as Ulsan Hang). Today, the area is one of the most industrialized harbors in the world, home to the Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard. The "mud in 7 fathoms" is now part of a massive commercial shipping and industrial hub.
See 6.12 of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsWC8phKG60&t=12s

Quentin Cronk
UBC
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