著者

井本 英一

出版者

桃山学院大学

雑誌

国際文化論集 (ISSN:09170219)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.22, pp.61-79, 2000-12-20

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In 19th-century Korea votive pictures of a tiger or a cock were put on the door or the wall of the imperial palace on the New year's Day. Pictures of a god and a goddess were also put on both the door posts or the entrance to the palace. These animals and gods were the ancestors of the emperor, whence the gardians of the palace. This custom was borrowed from China. In China there was more detailed systems of animals through which the souls of the dead were transmigrated. It was believed that the souls of the dead went into the wall and appeared out of it. People buried the dead body in the wall. The dead, like the living, come to life again on the New year's Day. The votive pictures of the New year's Day were the pictures of the ancestors of the emperor.