Pirushin(Parting with gods); Mudan(Shaman); Parikonju(a Foundling)(The Report on the 46th General Convention of Japanese Literary Association (Literature Division))

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  • 別神・巫堂・捨姫(<特集>日本文学協会第46回大会報告(文学の部))
  • 別神・巫堂・捨姫〔含 討論〕
  • ベツシン フドウ シャキ ガン トウロン

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The ritual parting with gods still performed in Korea today is the festival at a shrine (for the entire village) centered on the singing, dancing and offering of sacrifice by a shaman (mudan). This ritual has the performing style quite similar to that of hanamatsuri (flower festival) in Japan's Okumikawa (the remoter parts of Aiichi) District. In this essay, I have compared the myth narrating the origin of the mudan, "The Myth of the Parikonju," and "A Tale of the Ox-headed King," deeply related to hanamatsuri I have also attempted to trace the narrative (mythical) kinship of these stories with Hakusan no Honkai," a guide to the rebus representing the map of Hakusan, which helped spread the worship of Hakusan all over the country. Furthermore, I have pointed out the similarities between the rituals concerning Hakusan at the hanamatsuri and the rituals of Kilgarum performed by the mudan. Finally, I have tried to indicate that the "traffic" between the Japanese and Korean myths in the Middle and Early Modern ages, as shown in this paper, gives a legitimate ground for my propositions made at the Division of Early Modern (Kinsei) Literature at the General Convention of Japanese Literary Association last Year.

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