중세 일본의 자기 정체성과 타자성

Abstract

This paper examines how medieval Japan defined self-identity in recognizing others, such as Chosen and China. Others in ancient times played the role of ifentifying itself in Japan. Imitating China’s Sinocentrism, Japan identified itself as small empire, and Silla and Baekje as subject countries. In Heian period the thought of three countries(sankokukan) was popular under the influence of the Buddhism. Japan considered three countries as important in propagating Buddhism to India, China and Japan. Japan tried prescribe itself in light of a universal view of the world in the ancient times, but Japan emphasized particularity and the superiority over others in medieval ages. The recognition that Japan is the land of the gods increased in fear of the Mongolia invasion. The imagined otherness was succeeded and repositioned in literature like a novel and temple’s origin story(zisyaengi). The thought of removing others and building an internal homogeneity was applied to the principle of unification in the modern Japan.