This article analyzes the co-relationship between Yuseongul, a Tang-dynasty romantic(Jeongi) novel and Monogatri in the Heian age, particularly regarding the acceptance and recreation of the former in the ancient Japanese literature. Yuseongul, which is regarded as the first foreign literatured imported into Japan, is a representative Jeon-gi romance about a love with a celestial maiden in the Tang dynasty and played the most important role in the birth of an ancient Japanese novel, Monogatari. After importing the culture of Tang dynasty, a great number of male authors in the nobility was fascinated by the imaginary world of Taoist hermits and their love with a fairy nymph. In this respect, Yuseongul, which tells the story of love and separation between lovers, was accepted as a great specimen and also provided a representative form for the romance the Heian noble men yearned to create. The aesthetics that is idealized in the romance of Taoist hermits is spiritual refinement in an isolated place far from our everyday world. This literary form was a way that the contemporary noble men with the great knowledge of Chinese characters and literature express themselves. Furthermore, the popularity of refined literary tastes in the Heian age reveals their wishful fantasy to live on the ideas of Taoism, that is, the life of a hermitic doyen.
한국일본언어문화학회 [Japanese Language & Culture Association of Korea]
설립연도
2001
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본문학은 물론, 일본의 정치, 경제, 문화, 사회 등의 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구 및 일본의 언어, 문화를 매체로 한 한국과의 비교 연구를 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 학회는 회원들에게 연구 발표 및 정보 교환의 기회를 부여하고 나아가 한국에서의 바람직한 일본 연구 자세를 확립하는 것을 주된 목표로 하고 있다.