‘宣和奉使高麗使節團’의 群山島 入島와 東아시아 海域의 五龍廟 信仰

Abstract

In the previous essay, I have expressed my own opinions about some problems related to the Xuanhe Delegation to Goryo宣和奉使高麗使節團 which was dispatched by Song dynasty in the time of 12 century of international turbulent era, but for some problems I could not dealt with thoroughly because of the space limit to write. The issues I left over before and intended to be intensively analysed in this essay are to examine the Xuanhe Delegation’s activities around Gunsan群山 Island area and this mission mainly are conducted by analysing the historical materials of Goryodokyong高麗圖經 that was written by one of attendant of Xuanhe Delegation. Goryodokyong have high historical values in terms of describing various aspects of Goryo society vividly with contemporary writer’s eyes. On the other hand, however, most of the description in the Goryodokyong are regionally focused on the capital of Goryo and the other region are referred very simply. Under these conditions, Gunsan Island relatively have many clues for researchers to look into the situations of how the Xuanhe Delegation spent their travel itinerary and how Goryo accepted and welcomed them. In this respect, I can say that Gunsan Island was a very important and almost only spot where the very first part of trend of the delegation could be traced before the delegation reached their final goal of the Capital of Goryo and therefore the descriptions regarding Gunsan Island in Goryodokyong need to be analysed. Accordingly, in this essay three points will be mainly depicting the as below. The first thing is about the process of the delegation’s getting into Gunsan Island, the second one is to arrange and organize the previous studies on diplomatic facilities in Gunsan Island area such as 群山亭, and last thing is to present my opinion to the Olyongmyo that was a kind of religious facility especially combining the point of view from the East Asia Sea.