8세기 신라의 대일외교와 동아시아 인식

Abstract

This paper examined the character and process of Silla’s diplomacy toward Japan, and Silla people’s perception of Japan and Balhae. Although Nihonsyoki(日本書紀) tells us that Silla, Goguryeo and Baekje became the savage country(蕃國) of Japan after Empress Jinggu(神功皇后)’s conquest of Silla, it’s hard to believe it as it is. After the promulgation of Taihoryo(大寶令) in 701, Japan stipulated Tang Dynasty as a neighboring country(隣國) and Silla as a savage country. Simultaneously, they seemed to make an excessively forced analogy that the legend that Empress Jinggu conquered Silla was an origin for Japan’s decision to define Silla a savage country. At this time, Silla perceived Japan as an object of good-neighbor diplomacy(交隣) or a potential enemy, not as a big country like Tang that served with a suzerain state. In the early 8th century, Japan treated Silla’s envoys as envoys of the savage country and this treatment did not meet with big opposition from Silla. But this acceptance from Silla was not because Silla acepted the Japanese world order and the Japanese view of the world or admitted itself as a savage country of Japan. It is hard to say that Silla’s acception was more than a diplomatic gesture from concern about Japan’s invasion. In the early 730s Silla people were self-confident of their country and regarded themselves as people of a country that was a noble-man country(君子國) that developed Confucian culture comparable to that of China. On the other hand, Silla derogated and discriminated Japan and Balhae an uncivilized barbarians country(夷狄國) that fell behind culturally. So it can seem that Silla people tried to show off the internal and external self-regard of a nation through this. After 730s Silla lodged a strong protest against Japan’s treatment that treats its envoys as savage country’s envoys based on its view of Japan that regarded Japan as a barbaric outlander. Since Japan adhered to their prior decision to treat Silla as a savage country according to the rules of Taihoryo, these two countries conflicted each other frequently.