Editor's Introduction

As adver tised in a "Note to Potential Contributors" from the edi tor in chief in SJEAS 19, no. 2, since autumn 2019 the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies has redefined and narrowed its focus to con cen trate pri mar ily on pre-1945 top ics on East Asia in the human i ties writ large, where East Asia is con strued as the for mer "Sinographic Sphere" or "Sinographic Cosmopolis," includ ing nota bly Vietnam.One topic of research iden ti fied in that note as offer ing spe cial inter est and promise was trans la tion stud ies and trans la tion his tory in the sinographic East Asian region.Specifically, the mul ti far i ous inter ac tions and nego ti a tions between Literary Sinitic and East Asian ver nac u lar tra di tions over the cen tu ries, as well as the his tory, role, and place of trans la tion in tra di tional East Asian lit er ary cul tures, hold out great prom ise for rethink ing and recalibrating trans la tion stud ies as a field, and reconceptualizing the his tory of lit er ary cul tures in the Sinographic Cosmopolis in com par i son with other tra di tions.To that end, indi vid ual arti cles related to trans la tion stud ies have already begun to appear in the jour nal (e.g., Son 2021 and Han 2021); at the same time, colleagues on the Editorial Board agreed that the jour nal should strive to include not only works about trans la tion but also trans la tions them selves-espe cially in the case of shorter but impor tant texts (too short, that is, to war rant treat ment as an inde pen dent mono graph, but per haps lon ger than a typ i cal jour nal arti cle).Such texts deemed deserv ing of trans la tion, when accom pa nied by a robust schol arly and phil o log i cal con tex tu al iz ing appa ra tus, are essen tial to teach ing and scholar ship.Besides indi vid ual arti cles about trans la tion and schol arly trans la tions of care fully selected texts, the Editorial Board also agreed that occa sional spe cial issues-whether on ques tions of trans la tion or ded i cated to other spe cific panregional or com par a tive themes-were a desid er a tum.Thus it is with great plea sure that we pres ent here our first spe cial issue, ded i cated to the topic of inter-and intralingual trans la tion in the Sinographic Cosmopolis.The first two arti cles con cern ques tions of trans la tion in Edo Japan.In the first, Rebekah Clements exam ines the ideas and prac tice of Ban Kōkei 伴蒿蹊 (1733-1806) around trans la tion.Kōkei was espe cially inter ested in the ques tion of how to develop "expres sive and use ful Jap a nese prose for the pres ent," and Clements con cludes that his ideas on how to craft such a ver nac u lar prose "were drawn from the spec trum of writ ten lan guages used in Japan in his day and involved intralingual trans la tion from clas si cal and writ ten forms of Jap a nese, as well as trans la tion from Literary Sinitic."In the sec ond Japan arti cle, Mat thew

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