동아시아 열녀담의 전승과 변용 - ‘경사절녀(京師節女)’담을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study investigated the examples of China and Joseon, focusing on the aspects of the transmission concerning how “Gyeongsajeolnyeo Story” in the Biographies of Exemplary Women, which is Mongaku’s(1139-1203) resolution tale and the original story of Kesagozen’s sad story, was received and transformed in Japan, with the topic of the Transmission and Transformation of East Asian Stories of Exemplary Women.” “Gyeongsajeolnyeo Story” expanded its scope from a story of fidelity and filial piety, in which a woman is sacrificed by the enemy of her husband for him to save her father’s life and to adhere to her fidelity to her husband, to a story of revenge of the enemy in China. Meanwhile, in Joseon, it was strengthened into a story of a woman of chaste reputation and was passed down as an example of the practice of Confucian ideology, focusing the act of a woman’s death. Concerning this, in Japan, it was transformed into a story appropriate for Buddhist doctrines, focusing on dealing with a woman’s humane aspect and describing her inner psychology, or focusing on change in the enemy’s mind or repentance or awakening, which became the ground for Mongaku’s resolution story. In addition, a phenomenon of circulation is also found, in which the Resolution Story affects the transmission of “Gyeongsajeolnyeo Story.” Like this, it may not be too much to say that “Gyeongsajeolnyeo Story,” interpreted and passed down from each independent viewpoint, is cultural heritage shared in East Asia.