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Today, there are some debates on Amenomori Hoshu as an idealistic international person and on Korean Envoys as a symbol of good neighborly friendship in Edo period. In modern age, the 'Chinese World Order' was an useful point of view when intellectuals prescribe for the relations between self and the others. How was such viewpoint on the others revealed in discourses among the Japanese intellectuals based on the Neo-Confucianism in Edo period? In this paper, I hope to find out how Japanese intellectuals' viewpoints of Chosun reflected on their own identities.