일본 고전텍스트와 추리서사

Abstract

This study paid attention to wide-meaning mystery techniques having been drawn on Japanese classical texts, and looked into aspects of the detective narrative that had inherent tradition of East Asia itself separately from that of the West. Detective stories having representative forms of the detective narrative started from the West in the first half of the 19th century, and was known as being developed in the oriental region such as Japan and Korea before and after the 20th century. However, the detective narrative consists of incident, victim, and criminals, and detective services that are busy going here and there to solve the riddle is existed, and it can be also defined as stories having narrative structures in which readers participate in the riddle-solving while figuring out the truth of mystery, so its origin could be gone back to pre-modern times. Also, when thinking about detective narratives of East Asia including Korea and Japan etc., intrinsic motives have not to be overlooked. The riddle, that is research on mysteries derive from curiosities on unknown things as human’s fundamental desires, so it is corresponded to elements that cannot be omitted in the plot of narrative literature from oral literature of the East and West to substrate literature such as myths, legend, and tales. Thus, mystery techniques called riddle-solving have been used in classical narrative traditions of East Asia including China, Korea, and Japan etc., naturally, and the origin of detective narratives can be confirmed in narrative traditions in the East apart from western influences. The study took notice of mystery techniques shown at Yugao story of『Genji Monogatari』, Miwayama myth listed in『Kojiki』, a tale using mystery techniques and written down to No. 29 of『Konzyakumonogatarisyu』,『Honchououinhiji』by Ihara Saikaku that was a judgment-related book in Edo period. Through this consideration, this study was able to confirm a fact that Japanese detective narrative literature after modern times have been developed by regarding detective narrative traditions of oriental ancients as intrinsic motives, not to mention of western influences. In addition, when closely watching Korean classical texts to which mystery techniques were introduced, its viewpoints could be expanded to inherent traditions of detective narratives in East Asia.