일본 근세 연극과 조선

Early Modern Japanese Drama and Joseon - Focusing on Example Sentences Related to Joseon Shown on Work Written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon -

The paper reviewed example sentences with a work of Chikamatsu Monzaemon under the themes of Early modern Japanese drama and Joseon. First of all, examples related to Joseon varied, for example, ‘ (kourai/koma)’, ‘ (hakusai)’, ‘ (sila)’, ‘ (chosen)’, ‘ (sankan)’, ‘ (karakuni/karakoku)’ etc. ‘ ’ which is most widely said to represent Joseon was often recognized as a foreign country with a negative image. What is noteworthy is that reality and contemporariness were emphasized, using ‘Joseon ’ for an objective and geographical view of world, distinguished from ‘Goryeo ’ which is a conceptual representative foreign country. This shows an aspect of recognition on foreign countries for early modern Japanese people. In the aspect, ‘foreign country of dream’ which the traditional view of world had, and ‘foreign country in real world’ obtained by various information on foreign countries in early modern period coexist. On the other hand, Chikamatsu Monzaemon sensitively responded to information and trend of foreign countries so that he was very interested in The Joseon Tongsinsa(goodwill missions sent intermittently, at the request of the Japanese authority, by Joseon Dynasty Korea to Japan). Whenever The Joseon Tongsinsa visited Japan, he put a work related work on stage. However, the writer’s attitude shown on his works was sometimes contrary. It seems that Chikamatsu’s recognition on Joseon was flexible or fluid in front of the destiny of drama world which is a request and an interest from the audiences, and focusing on performance success.