著者

豊田 有恒

出版者

島根県立大学

雑誌

北東アジア研究 (ISSN:13463810)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.3, pp.97-108, 2002-03

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The ancient relationship between NEAR-North East Asian Region depends on many uncertain factors. The reason why is very clear. There are not enough evidence to probe the historical facts. Our study to make them clear must need some kind of patience. The area today called Shimane was once devided into two parts, Izumo and Iwami. Izumo is very famous for it's favor of the sight-seeing spots of mithology. Many tourists visit prefectural capital Matue every year. The way to solve the problems lies on this point. It's mithology. The ancient chronicle shares many pages on Izumo mith. Yet there is no evidence to probe the existence of ancient Izumo Kingdom. Izumo Kingdom is thought to be only existed in the mithological world. But in order to solve the problems, a key which can make us to guide the world of mithology, has an important role in area studies. We must need a view point to research NEAR area. The most important area is Silla (新羅). Japanese mith has a tale of a vagabond prince from Silla. His name is Susanoh, who is very famous for dragon-slaying. He killed eight-headed hydra, Yamatano-oroti. This mithological pattern originned from Greek mith, which was called Perseus-Andromeda type. This mithological tale was brought from Greece after a long jouney across the Eurasian Continent. As for the relationship between Izumo and Korean Peninsula, ancient Kara area is also important. Kara is a word to call Korea at first. For instance, Kara-kuni (韓国) means Korea itself. Ancient Kara was not a dynasty, but a league of farmers village nations. Those kinds were called by Max Weber "Bauerngemeinwesen" (Farmer's community). From this area, on the south end of Korean Peninsula, many imigrants or say refugees visited Japan Archipelago and brought a lot of chinese cultures which was already brought to Korea and translated into Korean language that had philologically same origins to Japanese. Many years afterward, Japanese forgot the influences from Korea. Or, to speak frankly, Our ancestors tried to neglect the influences from Korea as possible as we could. In 8th century Japanese began to send big delegations to Chinese Tang dynasty which made many cultural shocks such as "Law and Administration Systems" (律令制度) to Japan. The delegation from Japan to China was always confronted the power of outer sea where many ships wrecked and many young and talented student drowned. At last the Japanese government stopped to dispatch delegations to China for the fatal risks. So, us Japanese has a tendensy to over-estimate the role of China-delegation (遣唐使). It was caused by our nationalistic way of thinking in which we easily tried to think that our ancestors earned Chinese advanced civilization on our own risk of those brave voyage to China. Before the delegations to China, there were many anonimous Korean imigrants who gave us those knowledge of how to write, how to make Buddha statues, how to find gold mine, and how to construct temples or palaces. On this point, importance of Kara (加羅) was increased not only for Izumo but also for Japanese every districts. Especially Izumo has a lot of relations to Kara, for instances as those names of shrines, temples and places. I am going to make it clear about those relationship of Izumo and ancient Kara district.