‘은주시청합기’(隱州視聽合記)의 선행연구에 대한 검토

Abstract

This Article examines the translation of Saito Hosen’s ‘Report(“Onshu Shicho Goki”) on Oki District’. In this document Oki Islands and the vicinity are described in detail and maps of Oki Districts were included. There are disputes over this historical record relevant to translation of the character “州” in the final line of this passage. Thus, the interpretation of '隠州在北海中故云隠岐嶋' Oki (州 = district) is in the center of the North Sea so it is named Okishima… (嶋 = island) and So then, the northwest of Japan, we make this “州” (州 = district or island?) to be the boundary('然則日本乾地以此州為限矣'). The Japanese interpretation of the 'Saito Hosen's Report’ falls apart even by the end of the first introductory sentence. Here it was written “Oki (district) is in the center of the North Sea so it is named Oki Island…” In other words, the Okinoshima Island group itself was the district. Of course that would exclude Ulleungdo and Dokdo which are not part of the Oki Islands and Saito Hosen’s map included with the report confirms this. Note Ulleungdo and Dokdo are not to be found anywhere on the maps of Oki District.