The Story of Simchǒng-jǒn

Japanese: 沈清伝 - しんせいでん（英語表記）Simchǒng-jǒn

A representative Hangeul novel from the late Joseon Dynasty of Korea. The author and year of its creation are unknown. It was passed down as a story or pansori, but it is thought to have been established as a novel around the 18th century. It is a tale of a filial daughter, set on land and in the Dragon Palace, mixing Confucian and Buddhist ideology. The protagonist, Simcheong, loses her mother when she is seven days old and grows up to be a poor but pretty girl with her blind father. At the age of 15, she prays to Buddha to help her father see, sells herself to a Chinese sailor for 300 koku of rice as an offering, and drowns herself as a sacrifice on the route of the Indangsu River. Simcheong, transformed into a lotus flower, is presented before the emperor, is resurrected, and becomes empress. She holds a banquet for the blind and meets her father, and her father is so happy that he regains his sight. In 1972, the opera was composed by Yun Isang, and premiered in Munich, where it garnered an unprecedented response and became famous worldwide.

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Japanese:

朝鮮，李朝後期の代表的ハングル小説。作者，成立年未詳。語り物やパンソリとして伝承されながら 18世紀頃小説に定着したと思われる。地上と竜宮を舞台にした儒仏思想混交の孝行娘物語。生後7日で母を失った主人公の沈清は，目の不自由な父のもとで貧しいながら可憐な少女に育つ。 15歳のとき父の目が見えるよう仏に願をかけ，供養米 300石のために中国の船員に身を売り，印塘水の航路のいけにえとなり入水する。蓮の花と化した沈清は皇帝の前に出され還生して皇后となり，目の不自由な人のための饗宴を開いて父に会い，父は喜びのあまり目が見えるようになる。 1972年に尹伊桑によってオペラに作曲されミュンヘンで初演，空前の反響を得，世界的に有名になった。

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