長節子著『中世日朝関係と対馬』(戊午叢書)

抄録

In my book The Status System in Ancient China -Liang and Jian, I argued that the legal statuses called liangren ("good people") and nubi (slaves) appeared during the Three Kingdoms period in the 3rd century. On the contrary, Prof.Kawamoto asserted that the above statuses appeared under the Northern Wei dynasty in the 5th century in his essay printed in Shigaku-Zasshi vol.XCVI no.12. The aim of this paper is to refute his view. In fact, Prof.Kawamoto's opinion can already be seen in the article of Prof.Isamu Ogata. Therefore this paper criticizes mainly the historical materials used by Prof.Ogata. As a result, I have shown that the materials do not prove the appearance of the new statuses, but demonstrate the way of solving lawsuits concerning the statuses of people after the disorder caused by the barbarian invasions and the famine. This paper also argues that the word liangren, meaning common people, had already become popular under the Han dynasty, and that after its fall, that is during the Three Kingdoms period, the legal statuses of liangren and nubi were established. The idea that nubi, or jianren ("humble people") were the property of liangren was also established after that period.