英文摘要
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The value of existence was ingeniously allegorized by daily things in the Chinese and Japanese supernatural tales, which tend to reflect on the humanness. Such as the ethic of friends, a universal principle of human relations, Ueda Akinari (1734-1809), famous Japanese short ghost story writer, keynoted, and adapted ”the Chrysanthemum Vow” from ”Fan Juqing's Chicken-millet life and death friendship,” which was retold and recast by Hung Pian and Feng Menglong (1574-1646). In the similar stories of two loyal friends with human touch, there are different views of life and death, as well as views of ethics between two nations. This paper traces the variety of textual, paraptexual additions, and emendations in a series of tales about friendship of life and death. I also explore the characteristics of Ming and Edo period, and their worldly truths through an analysis of narrative devices.
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