The Urashima tradition is a rare case which can pursue the process of the change from ancient times to the present age also in a fairy tale. Moreover, it is a tale which can put in teachings etc. artificially, though it is simple contents, and it has been transmitted as a tale which took in the Utopia with the literary idea. However, it is considered for the original meaning to be because for different words and phrases to have been added to have been treated as a talk of rewarding an obligation until now. Because, although an ancient tradition tried to draw a kind of paradise connected with legendary-hermit-with-miraculous-power thought, since an element called requital of kindness of an animal went into behind, the theme has changed. Furthermore, in the tale on and after medieval times, the Buddhism element which forbids destruction of life was also added. In short, the flow has changed to a tale with the ancient-times way of thinking ethical from the first based on different-kinds marriage tradition like the visit myth of the royal palace of the sea god in the Kojiki and Nihonshoki. By the way, the Urashima tradition is a tale unfolded considering the world of the legendary hermit with miraculous power who is beyond marine as main stages. Probably, the background of such a tradition also had an idea of the Taoism Utopia of literary men of those days, and yearning. Moreover, "Fuso" in the sea from which a day rises claims that it is Japan, and it is thought that it was also a thing proving there having been an incident which supports this. On the other hand, the Urashima tradition is drawing the world of marine that direction. Therefore, it is also a material of the most suitable storytelling for making people's imaginative power brawny. This does not stop at literature but can be said to be also a tale in which the romance of the human being through the sea was condensed like "the country of Hades" and "Niraikanai" of Okinawa in folk-customs faith.
동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.