『今昔物語集』의 天狗談 고찰

Abstract

Since ancient times, humans have lived with surreal monsters and imaginary animals, Among them, ‘Tengu’ is especially familiar to the Japanese. In ancient times, they were called a falling star ‘Tengu’, it can be confirmed that the expression ‘Tengu’ is also used. Thus, there must have been a number of changes before the image is settled as it is today, in this study, we wanted to read the pages of ‘Tengu’ through “Konzaku”, and also wanted to see the literary characteristics through the plan of the compiler. First of all, ‘Tengu’ is known to be basically anti-Buddhism, and it was also possible to see such images throughout “Konzaku”. However, in some fairytales with a dim personality of ‘Tengustory’, we could feel the desire of a compiler to play rebirth it with‘Tengustory’, suggesting that the acquisition of ‘Tengustory’ was difficult. And in the arrangement of ‘Tengustory’, the list of Indian, Chinese and Japanese order was conscious of the traditional history of Buddhism in Japan. In particular, it can be felt that there is an ingrained desire to talk about the excellence of Japanese Buddhism through the failure of ‘Tengu’ from India and China. In the story of ten-34, the only ‘Tengustory’ in China, I noted that ‘Tengu’ is very similar to Budongmyungwang's faith, and it seems that these factors may have influenced Japanese Somedonokisakistory. The Somedonokisakistory is contained in a number of literature, One of them, compared with “Syuiojoden” through, to reaffirm the very deeply related with Budongmyungwang and ‘Tengu’. And the identity of the ‘Tengu’ adhering to empress is Sinzei. However, the famous monk Sinzei who recognazed Kukai, as to why he became a ‘Tengu’, we can only guess that the conflict with Huziwara family crest induced ill fate in his later years.