Ghost story culture, which flourished until the Edo period, was confronted with a crisis that its vein would be stopped because of the rationalism which had been introduced since the Meiji Restoration. However, under such conditions, ghost stories continued to be on everybody’s lips through the story telling of literary people at that time. Hyaku-monogatari(百物語), a collection of ghost stories which was published in the 27th year of the Meiji period(1894), held a key position in the ghost story history of Japan, in that it inherited the tradition of Ghost Story Society of modern times. This study speculated on the types and aspects of mysteries shown in a total of 34 ghost stories as an advanced post to identify characteristics of Hyaku- monogatari. A total of 39 mysterious stories were categorized according to properties: 6 on humans, 6 on natural things, 4 on sound and strange phenomena and 1 on mysterious things. Humans appeared 25 times, of which ghosts appeared 19 times. The reason why such aspects appeared is that ghost stories were made based on human oriented ideas which were found in conflicts between humans and humans, or humans and society. Except stories 20, 30, 31, 33 and 34, as the mysteries in each of these was derived from internal conflicts in human society such as death from an illness, sensitivity, murder, conflicts between wife and husband, jealousy, suicide, death in battle, tricks, death from an accident and hatred. The internal conflicts in society which occurred in the flow of rapid changes due to forced enlightenment were expressed through a form of ghost story, in which mysteries triggered by humans appeared the most. That is, Hyaku-monogatari is characterized by urban ghost stories which expressed the darkness in our minds.
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.