「곤자쿠모노가타리슈(今昔物語集)」에 나타난 부정적 무사담(武士談) 고찰 - 골계담, 악행담, 실패담을 중심으로 -

Abstract

『Konzakumonogatarisyu』 was published in the late Heian Period(794~1185) and it contains Chinese, Indian, and Japanese 1,000 tales. Especially in the 23rd and 25th volumes of it,  the tales of Bushi are concentrated and arranged and most of them have many praises and positive stories about the Bushi. However, Bushi also had a negative aspect and humanity as a member of the human crowd. These aspects could be identified in the other volumes excepts the 23rd and 25th volumes. In this research, I categorized negative aspects of Bushi into three groups as follows: Kot-Kei-Dan, Humourous Tales, the 28th vol. Aku-Kyo-Dan, Evil Deed Tales, the 29th vol. and Sit-Pai-Dan, failure tales of Bushi, all other vol. of the books. Firstly, in Kot-Kei-Dan, there was a story like unfaith Bushi was disgraced himself in public and the trouble of Bushi who had never been on a wagon and these appearances of Bushi in this part was ridiculous and humane. Nevertheless, it was possible to understand them as a group of human beings who lived in those days, not as horror on the job of murder and war. However, the story of the Bushi’s evil deeds in Aku-Kyo-Dan contrasts perfectly with the figures of the Kot-Kei-Dan. In particular, the appearance of Bushi taking the fetus’s liver to heal his illness clearly showed his dark side. In Sit-Pai-Dan, the Bushi’s failure tales like making a tongue slip or overconfidence in his ability show various appearances of them and I think it shows the Bushi’s virtues must possess. In addition to the three categories above, I was able to confirm the anecdotes of those times through the Bushi’s dressage and the myth of utopia. Through the consideration of the negative tales of Bushi in 『Konzakumonogatarisyu』, I earned the following conclusion: The existence of Bushi at that time was an entity that made violence a job, However, he’d lived the times as a member of human crowds, made mistakes sometimes, committed evil deeds, and also failed various things, so it means that Bushi appears as a multi dimensional entity in the books.