| Goguryeo Kingdom Envoys to Samarkand in 665 during the Sogdian Kingdom, center of the Silk Road |
| Fragment from a silk tapastry known as Samarkand Heritage, dated at 665 CE, showing what scholars have identified as two Envoys from the Korean Goguryeo Kingdom (~300s - 668) |
| Shilla and Baekje Kingdom Envoys to Tang China in mid-500s llustrations of Tributaries from the Liang Dynasty 502-557 |
| 6th century Liang dynasty (China) painting depicting envoys (left to right), from Wa (primitive Japan), the Shilla Kingdom and the Baekje Kingdom. The differences in clothing and hairstyles is striking. The painting is called Damyeom-ripbon-wang-hido (唐閻立本王會圖), 6th century, China, and is now in the Palace Museum in Taipei. |