「덴동어미화전가」의 작자 문제

Abstract

The present study sheds new light on the author of “Song of the Mother of a Burned Boy at the Flower Festival”(덴동어미화전가, Dendong Eomi Hwajeon’ga), which hitherto has been vaguely considered a work penned by a woman. The poem is included in a book titled Record of the Great View of Mt. Sobaek(小白山大觀錄, Sobaeksan Daegwallok), which in turn consists of a total of four texts. From these texts, “Record of the Great View of Mt. Sobaek”and “Poetic Exposition on Seokchang”(賦石窓, Bu-Seokchang) are written in classical Chinese (Sino-Korean) while “This is a Korean translation of ‘Record of the Great View of Mt. Sobaek(소백산대관록언해라, Sobaeksan Daegwallok Eonhae-ra)’” and “Song of the Mother of a Burned Boy at the Flower Festival”are written in Han’geul(Korean alphabet). Because “This is a Korean translation of ‘Record of the Great View of Mt. Sobaek’”is not simply a Korean translation of “Record of the Great View of Mt. Sobaek”, but further elaborates the latter work in content and is a gasa(歌辭, narrative song) in terms of the genre, it should be renamed “Song of the Great View of Mt. Sobaek(소백산대관가, Sobaeksan Daegwan’ga)”. The present study demonstrates through detailed analysis of the works that both the “Record of the Great View of Mt. Sobaek”and “Poetic Exposition on Seokchang”were written by the same author and both the “Song of the Great View of Mt. Sobaek”and “Song of the Mother of a Burned Boy at the Flower Festival”were written by the same author. And demonstrates all four texts were written by the same author. The present study demonstrates that the author, whose penname was “Seokchang”and resided in what is now Nong’am Hamlet(農巖村), Jwaseok Village(坐石里), Dansan Township(丹山面), City of Yeongju(榮州市), was a male from the old rural aristocratic class. He styled himself as a subject of a nation fallen to Japanese colonial rule(1910-1945), where he distanced himself from the world and lived in seclusion in the mountains.