Collections on Monk Jianzhen’s Voyage to Japan and the Transmission of Hainan’s Cultural Heritage

LI Jieling

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236410

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LI Jieling. Collections on Monk Jianzhen’s Voyage to Japan and the Transmission of Hainan’s Cultural Heritage[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(4): 144-155. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236410

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LI Jieling. Collections on Monk Jianzhen’s Voyage to Japan and the Transmission of Hainan’s Cultural Heritage[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(4): 144-155. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236410

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Collections on Monk Jianzhen’s Voyage to Japan and the Transmission of Hainan’s Cultural Heritage

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236410

LI Jieling^,

Hainan Normal University

Received Date: 2023-10-20
Accepted Date: 2023-11-21

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Due to a storm at sea, Jianzhen ended up in Hainan during his fifth eastward voyage to Japan. This experience and the local customs in Hainan are recorded in Time for Buddhism: The Nara Period published by Kodansha. There is an aricle in Monbu Kagakushō's history textbook for elementary students titled “Ganjin Richo,” which also accounts for Jianzhen's experience in Hainan. In the history of literary creation in Japan, Jianzhen's voyage to Japan and his sojourn in Hainan were significant writing materials. For example, Inoue Yasushi's historical novel Tenpyō no iraka has repeatedly put down Jianzhen's life and influence in Hainan. Among the items that Jianzhen carried on his second eastward journey were mats woven from the five-colored rattans grown in Wenchang, Hainan, suggesting that rattan handicrafts from Hainan had already been quite famous in the Tang Dynasty, and had been spread to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Tōseiden Emaki passed down from the Kamakura Period has preserved the scene of Jianzhen being welcomed by Feng Chongzhai, which demonstrates that Hainan was an instrumental foreign trade zone during the Tang Dynasty. In the mid-8th century, a transportation network connecting Guizhou, Guangzhou, Jiaozhou, Tanzhou, Hongzhou, and many other cities came into shape in Southern China, by means of which Lingnan commodities and culture were continuously transported overseas by ship. Hainan is on this trade line. During his stay in Hainan, Jianzhen acquired a lot of valuable spices. In addition to the five-colored rattan utensils, spices were valued local specialties in Hainan as well. Jianzhen biographies written by Si Tuo and Oumi Mifune, which are preserved in Japan, enjoy the highest the credibility and thus are the main sources of information related to biographies of Jianzhen. By counting on these documents, this article submits that records on Jianzhen's voyage to Japan not only testify that local spices from Hainan were transmitted to Japan as concomitant with the transmission of Buddhism, but also confirm that Hainan was already a vital port for international trade in the Tang Dynasty.
- Jianzhen,
- Voyage to Japan,
- Hainan,
- Culture,
- Transmission

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