한(恨)과 모노노아와레의 비교연구 - 종교미학적 ‘반대의 일치’ -

Abstract

Han and Monono-aware have things in common, in that both the two are respectively related to the essential identity of Korea and Japan. In addition, this essay pays attention to the concepts such as “religioaesthetics” and “coincidentia oppositorum”. Religio- aesthetics means an aesthetic sense getting along with religious ethos. For example, Han might be considered as a kind of sadness which comes from the background of Korean shamanistic or Confucian culture, while Monono-aware is the one which has something to do with Japanese Shinto or Buddhism. They especially show “coincidentia oppositorum”, a situation in which the existence or identity of a thing depends upon the co-existence of at least two conditions which are opposites to each other, yet dependent on each other and presupposing each other within a field of tension. The main purpose of this essay is to comparatively investigate both commonalities and differences of Han and Monono-aware from the point of “religio-aesthetics” and “coincidentia oppositorum”. In so doing, I would like to shed light on the paradoxical relationship between Korean and Japanese culture, referring to the views of nature in two countries.