Kim Manjung - Kinmanju (English spelling)

Japanese: 金万重 - きんまんじゅう（英語表記）Kim Manjung

[Born] King Injo 15 (1637)
[Died] Sukjong 18 (1692)
A Korean literary official and novelist of the Yi Dynasty. His pen name was Jungsuk. His pen name was Seop. He was born into the distinguished family of the Kim clan in Gwangsan, and served in prominent positions such as Chief Justice and Chief Professor, but he was caught up in a party strife and died of an illness in Namhae, where he was exiled. He advocated the value of Hangeul in the climate of classical Chinese worship at the time, and recognized the usefulness of novels, which were often overlooked. He wrote long Hangeul novels such as Nine Clouds Dream and Record of the Southern Expedition of the Xie Family. It is said that he wrote Nine Clouds Dream for his mother while in exile, and it depicts the Buddhist enlightenment that fame, wealth and prosperity are nothing more than a spring dream through the life of an aristocrat named Yang Shaoyou. Record of the Southern Expedition of the Xie Family is a work that illustrates the incident in which King Sukjong deposed his queen by referring to the conflict between wives and concubines in an aristocratic family. His other works include the collection of poems and prose, Seop Collection, and the collection of essays, Seop Manpitsu.

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Japanese:

[生]仁祖15(1637)
[没]粛宗18(1692)
朝鮮，李朝の文臣，小説家。字，重叔。号，西浦。光山金氏の名門に生れ，大司憲，大提学などの顕職を歴任したが，党争に巻込まれ，配所の南海で病死。当時の漢文崇拝の風潮のなかでハングルの価値を唱え，また軽視されていた小説にもその効用を認め，みずから長編のハングル小説『九雲夢』『謝氏南征記』などを書いた。『九雲夢』は配所で母親のために書いたともいわれ，功名富貴も一場の春夢にすぎないという仏教的悟りを，楊少遊という貴族の一生を通じて描く。『謝氏南征記』は，ときの王粛宗が王妃を廃した事件を，貴族の家庭の妻妾間の葛藤に仮託した作品。そのほか，詩文集『西浦集』，随筆集『西浦漫筆』などがある。

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