『조선표류일기』의 기록 체재와 특징

Abstract

On July 3, 1819, a Japanese vessel was washed ashore in Biin-hyeon, Seocheon-gun, Chungcheong-do. The ship was carrying a group of Japanese samurai Yasuda(安田), who was returning to Satsuma after serving in Erabuzima. Yasuda communicated with Chosun officials in writing, sharing conflicts and friendships with Chosun people. In particular, Yasuda shared a deep affection with Yun Yeong-gyu(尹永奎), Biin-hyeonggam, in a short period of time, and exchanged poems with scholars of Chosun. Yasuda recorded what happened during his stay in Chosun and left a diary depicting what he saw, which is the 『Chosun Drifting Diary』. In this diary, psychological descriptions of the creation and resolution of conflicts, friendship and compassion, and human desire are also shown in relatively detail. Yasuda recorded the emotions of the Chosun people he interacted with, and some Koreans were very friendly to the Japanese samurai who knew how to write. This diary has an auxiliary tool for reading Chinese characters, which makes it easier to learn the order of interpretation of Chinese characters. The sentences were divided, and the recorded characters were modified. There is a question of whose work the "Okuragana" and the auxiliary recorded Katagana are. Some of them appear to have been filled out by Yasuda himself, but no information about the remaining marks appears. Yasuda's 『Chosun Drifting Diary』 describes the painting in great detail, and the topography and sea route are painted in the form of a bird's-eye view, indicating that his imagination and spatial awareness were excellent. Yasuda's diary contains a lot of information on Chosun's customs and clothing more than 200 years ago, Chosun's response to the drifting and repatriation process, in addition to the Chosun's ship and the Chosun's topography, which seems to be highly useful as a research material on society of the time. 『Chosun Drifting Diary』 is a record written by the eyes and sensibilities of Yasuda, a Japanese samurai who drifted to Chosun 200 years ago, and contains various clues that do not appear in Chosun's records.