에도(江戶)의 이국(異國)여행소설 - 풍자와 희화를 통한 이국에 대한 우월의식 -

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In this paper, I analyze how foreign countries in the foreign travel novel are described and recognized. The paper also shows a sense of national superiority that foreign travel novels display to foreign countries from a moral and logical perspective. We aimed to consider the features by noting that the novels criticize or satirize Japanese society by comparing it with the foreign systems and customs.
The foreign travel novel draws a lesson from the bizarre presence and customs of the foreign country. Revealing Japan’s superiority, the preaching color becomes a work of deep color. As a result, the fantasy-filled imaginary alienation is fading. The foreign travel novel, on which the lessons are centered, is separated from the laws of the world. The free imagination falls short of the playing world. The world of imagination and wonder that transcends the logic of the real world is absorbed in the view of healing and morality.
The desire to escape from reality, yearning for a distant foreign country, and the expansion of the boundary on world recognition fell short of the absolute perception of typology. Eventually, the imaginative nation will be suppressed and regulated by the logic of the Edo period at the time.