18세기말 오키도(隱岐島)의 죽도전승 - 『長生竹島記』의 「松島」를 중심으로 -

Abstract

Yada-Takamasa, who written this book(Cyosei-Takesimaki), makes sure in the introduction, he is a Shinto priest. The temple name of a Shinto shrine is Unyou. The Unyou Temple is famous for the relation of Kojiki(a book of japanese myth). This temple was maden when a god named Okuninusi, handed over the country to the god named of Amaterasu. So Yada had a pride as a Shinto priest of Unyou Temple. So there were many episodes related with the ‘Kojiki’ and ‘Nihonsyoki’ in the introduction of this book. The theory of Kojiki is that Japan is the center of the world. Therefore Yada also written this book based on the same theory. He written that Matsu-sima located in the west sea of Oki and the Matsu-sima is an island of Japan. This sentence is a distortion which was made on the need for ethnocentrism. It also conformed in the name of the sea. Yada called the sea which named East sea in the times, the West sea. This name influenced by the ethnocentrism. When we think the truth which Yada was a Shinto shrine of Unyou Temple, we can understand the meaning of fiction included in this book.