한‧일 명산문화 전통의 역사지리적 비교 고찰

Abstract

The academic purpose of the study of famous mountain culture is to look back on the past of famous mountain culture developed in Korea and Japan’s diagnose the current status, and establish a basic comparative research framework to predict the future. This article is meaningful as a first step for the full-fledged investigation and study of famous mountain culture, and as an attempt to prepare a frame of historical and geographical discussion and a touchstone for comparative cultural consideration for Korea and Japan. Korean and Japanese people have lived with famous mountains and have blossomed an in-depth culture of famous mountains. It has a long tradition of worshiping as a spiritual mountain or considering it as a precious thing that gives energy to life. It inspired artistic inspiration to create numerous works and handed down folk rituals from region to region. For intellectuals, the famous mountain was a mirror of moral ideals and an object of cultivation of character. As such, the spectrum of famous mountain culture occupies a large proportion in various fields such as history, life, religion, thought, and art, but full-fledged exploration and systematic research are insufficient. This is why an academic thesis is needed on the tradition of famous mountain culture in the context of universality and speciality in East Asia. First of all, it is necessary to compare and shed light on what is the same and how it is different from the traditions and concepts of famous mountain culture between Korea and Japan, and to reveal the background and reason. The culture of famous mountains between Korea and Japan have many similarities. Korea and Japan are both mountain countries and people of mountains. The proportion of mountainous areas in the country accounts for a large proportion. Most of the mountains were both a spatial foundation and a place of life for people to lead their lives. This geographical background became the basic foundation for embodying the resemblance of the mountain culture of Korea and Japan as well-known mountain culture of Korea and Japan. There are many differences in the culture of famous mountains between Korea and Japan. The most obvious is the presence or absence of the nature of volcanoes and the difference of the mountain altitude or ups and downs in natural topography. This point became a basic factor in the birth of different cultural and historical famous mountain identities. In this paper, the characteristics of the famous mountain culture of Korea and Japan are described in eight points of Japan and three points of Korea, respectively.