著者

朴 賛基

出版者

国文学研究資料館

雑誌

国際日本文学研究集会会議録 = PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE (ISSN:03877280)

巻号頁・発行日

no.14, pp.35-50, 1991-03-01

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Delegations of Korean envoys, who made as many as twelve trips to Japan, offer us information about the relationship between Japan and Korea and about various events that took place over the span of the delegations. One of these incidents, the stabbing death of Che Chun Cheung, a member of the eleventh group of envoys who came to Japan in 1764, was made into a play, and indeed spawned a whole series of works collectively known under the name,"The Murder of the Foreigner. "Since the incident itself was so shocking and such a grave matter, the Bakufu's approach toward handling it appears to have been severe. Dramatizations of the event, taking account of the rigorous of the Bakufu, consequently underwent a transformation. In the dramatic texts we can read the attitude of the Japanese side, as well as the stance of the playwright, who assimilated this attitude. In addition to the changes in the kabuki dramatizations ,"The Murder of the Foreigner,"we can cite the diversity of records held to be true accounts and the Chronicle of Korean Delegations to Japan (1811) as manifestations of the harsh response of the Bakufu toward this incident. This harsh response is evidenced by the change in the name of the senior envoy, which was different in the description in Meiwa gankokan shinnen raihei ("The Visit of the Koreans in the First Year of Meiwa") from what it was in the other records. The difference in the subtle awareness between Korea and Japan vis a vis this incident gives us much to think about when considering the history of exchange between the two countries.