조선통신사가 한·일출판문화 발전에 미친 영향

Abstract

The prominent figures of Choseon Tongsinsa who were dispatched to Japan were mostly from the intellectual class in the late of Choseon Dinasty. People who took charge of Tongsinsa in Japan also part of the intellectual class. This study focuses on the impact of relationships on the publishing culture development of Korean and Japanese, especially the exchange of Choseon Tongsinsa in the 17th and 18th century. After the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592, the Tongsinsa mission was dispatched twelve times from Japan till the last Korean emperor. Tongsinsa mission would not have thought that they could have acted as mediators between publishing exchanges. Not only Korean books were spread throughout Japan, but also Japanese books were spread throughout Korea through Tongsinsa mission as well. Apart from that, they had found that the products of civilization and the phenomenon from their mother cultures were then used as published material that ended up being distributed everywhere. Choseon Tongsinsa was very surprised by the situation of publication that is gradually commercialized, but they hadn't noticed the change of Confucianism of Japan that takes the lead in the publication. There were not many different types of books that Tongsinsa took to Japan but it is taken note of that was the first route for the exchange. As the same way, the books from Japan mostly just centered on Confucianism. However, Confucians of the day awoke to the existence of the new methodology for understanding of scripture. The Pildamchanghwa between Choseon Tongsinsa and Japanese were printed en masse and in concert with the development of commercial publishing. Latter, it tended to expand the participants or to the subject of Pildam. Then the argument that is related to medicine was also embodied in Pildamchanghwajip. With these, records were published in Choseon that became an object of attention to the whole world. The information from Tongsinsa not only helps scholars create a practical view of Japan but also started the formation of pragmatism itself. Furthermore, the exchange of Choseon Tonsinsa is not limited to Choseon and Japan but it is expanded to the Qing Dynasty that those three countries made up the culture network.