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This study researched Chosun and Japanese literary men’s cognitive aspect of Mt.
Fuji which were made in the form of travel description and conversation by poetry-writing in 1682(7th dispatch of envoy).
The diplomatic mission deeply fascinated with Chosun’s cultural pride in 17th century underestimated Japanese literary men and Japan so they treated Japanese literary men unkindly. This fact provoked Japanese literary men’s antipathy. So they tried to inspire a sense of self-respect through the medium of Mt. Fuji. In the meantime, lots of conversation by poetry-writing exchanged between two countries and poems about Mt. Fuji were made. It was Japanese literary men who wrote poems about Mt. Fuji first. They took the form of poetry and worshiped beautiful and mysterious aspect of Mt. Fuji. They even showed off excellency of talented men who got a life-giving soul of Mt. Fuji because Chosun’s literary men doubted Mt. Fuji which had symbolic meaning of Japanese cultural pride. This kind of argument had continued because they both strived for superiority.
Chosun’s literary men couldn’t idly look on those of Japan trying to attain superiority by writing poems of magnificent, mysterious Mt. Fuji and fosterage men to be great.
So Chosun’s literary men generally agreed to the mysterious aspect of Mt. Fuji but on the other hand, they tried to decrease it by assuming the offensive occasionally.
It was very important matter to literary men individual and to their countries also.
So Chosun’s literary men tried to hurt those of Japan’s pride by taking a skeptical view of the mysterious aspect of Mt. Fuji, Seobok and five hundreds of prodigious children. But Japanese literary men tried to strengthen the mysterious aspect of Mt.
Fuji not to lose their pride. As a result, the cognitive aspect of Mt. Fuji between the two countries was somewhat common and at the same time somewhat different from the viewpoint of the mysterious aspect. In the end, the gap between the two countries was not filled up and ended in their individual sense of superiority.
This thesis is worth in view of confirming Chosun’s cultural pride in 17th century how to act on neighboring relations and how tensive the confrontation scene was.
Because of the limitation of paper space, this thesis didn’t deal with how different the cognitive aspect of 7th dispatch of envoy from those of before and after. It will be remained for the future study.