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Terauchi, the first "governor-general" of Korea, was as equal as Ito in the pillage of the Koryo ceramics.
Terauchi set up a “Korea Gallery” in his native place to store thousands of items of Korean cultural assets, many of which were Koryo ceramic ware looted from the tombs of the Koryo dynasty.
Copying from the chieftains of invasion and plunder, all sorts of human scums sneaked in Korea to loot the ceramic ware.
Some of them openly sold over the looted ceramic ware on the block of auctions under the pretext of the set-up of museums or purchase of relics and some others brazenly opened exhibitions with those robbed from graves.
A Japanese Sasaki, director of a fine art club, told that the auctions were usually held at night, when the Koryo ceramics said to come from the tombs of Kaesong were put out on the sales stand in a wicker trunk, all the items smeared with mud.
This shows that the Japanese grave robbers competitively dug up the tombs of Koryo dynasty and brought them to the auction as soon as they took hold of the Koryo ceramic wares.
Japanese profiteers mad to make a big fortune set up antique shops to sell the relics openly.
Having an eye to the ceramics of the feudal Joson dynasty, the plunderers randomly rummaged every corner and hole of civilian houses to rob all those thought to be worthy, even bowls or dishes.
Therefore, Kato a Japanese, testified that every ceramic in the Korean kitchen or corners of stables was gone to the extent that not an oil jar was left in the commoners’ houses round Pyongyang
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