『삼국연의』에 나오는 손으로 던지는 暗器에 관하여

Abstract

There are many hand throwing hidden weapons in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms(『三國演義』). The purpose of this paper is to investigate the features of the novel description about these hand throwing hidden weapons: Flying cutter(飛刀), Flying fork(飛叉), Short halberd(短戟), Small halberd(小戟), Stone(石子), One inch blade(方寸之刃), One inch iron(寸鐵). Through this investigation, we can know the following features: The first, most of the hand throwing hidden weapons are non-existent weapons in three kingdoms period. Actually these weapons have been appeared in the Song and Ming, Qing Dynasty, later than three kingdoms period. The second, some characters who are using these hand throwing hidden weapons are fictional characters. They are non-existent persons in The History of the Three Kingdoms(『三國志』).] The third, the writer avoided matching these hand throwing hidden weapons with the great hero characters, calculatedly. The forth, as the novel props, these hand throwing hidden weapons make the excellent action which cause momentary inversion of the battle condition.