『금석이야기집(今昔物語集)』의 이계(異界)･이향(異鄕) 관련 설화에 관한 고찰

Abstract

This study investigated tales re;ated to ikai(different world) and ikyoo(strange world) that appear in Konjaku Monogari. The result of the study, considering the “kyookai (boundaries)” in terms of time and space, is as below. In the tales related to jigoku(hell), mostly founded is “jigoku sosei tan”, in which one receives judgement by Enma Daioo in jigoku(hell) and then returns to gense (real world) because of the virtue that he practiced before. In these tales, the boundary between ikai and gense can be said to be “sigo(after death)” in terms of time, and “suihei takai kan (the other world horizontal; an extension of gense)” in terms of space. The jodo(pure land) can be said to be the same as jigoku(hell) in that it is the world of sigo(after death), howeber, there are only a few records mentioning the details of jodo and there can be seldom found tales related to “jodo homon tan”. “Encounters with oni” have characteristics in that the space itself where one encounters with oni appering at night turns into “ikai”. When considering in point of space, there can be found two types of tales; one which is clearly divided between the living space of oni and the living space of human, and the other which has a very vague distinction of the two spaces. Lastly, in the most cases in tales of ikyo, one experiences the other world when he loses the way in the mountains or drifts by wind and waves in the ocean, which has the very similar composition of motifs found in “ikyo homon tan”.