韓致奫 『海東繹史』의 百濟 王仁『千字文』 日本 傳播 確認論 比較史的 分析

Abstract

Han Chi-yun’s Haedongyeoksa(『海東繹史』) is almost the only and one as Korea’s history book in that it confirmed the fact of Baekje’s scholar Wangin’s spreading The Thousand-Character Text(千字文)to Japan from the records of Japanese books and described it by suggesting specific content as well as detailed sources. The records verifying Wangin’s spreading the Thousand-Character Text to Japan couldn’t be found from any of Korea’s previous history books and so Han Chi-yun must have chosen such a unique method to describe the fact. Han Chi-yun’s description that “Wangin initiated the field of study in Japan and became the master of Japan’s Confucianism” couldn’t be found from any record in Korea. But, noting such fact was discussed in detail only in Another Version of Japan’s History(『異稱日本傳』) by Japan’s Matsushita Kenrin, Han Chi- yun mentioned such fact in HaeDongyeoksa. While describing in his HaeDongyeoksa by quoting the theory from Wakan-sansaizue(和漢三才圖會) by Terajima Ryoan for spreading of The Thousand-Character Text to Japan by Wangin, Han Chi-yun conducted an overall analysis on the cause and effect relationship, and rectified the content reasonably to adopt it as an evidence. In this respect, Han Chi-yun must have demonstrated reasonable aspects. Han Chi-yun wrote Haedongyeoksa(『海東繹史』) as such by verifying what was unable to be done in our country’s history and by thinking very highly of the evidences to help find truth. His approach like this is considered to be one of the examples that have realized properly the principle of “To be a scientific history needs to have historical records as an evidence” as asserted by R. G. Collingwood. So, Han Chi-yun’s description in Haedongyeoksa(『海東繹史』) by suggesting ‘historical records’ as ‘evidence’ must have demonstrated his ability as a historian who elevated the history into the phase of ‘scientific history’.