Ch’ien-Teng-Hsin-Hua gave birth to Keum-O-Sin-Hwa in Korea and Otogiboko in Japan. Keum-O-Sin-Hwa, the first novel in Korea written by Kim-Si-Sub (1435-1493), had survived in Japan till 1884, when it saw the second publication. Its first reprint came out in 1653, thirteen years before Ryoi Asai wrote Otogiboko.
Among the eighteen stories in Otogiboko as adapted from Ch’ien-Teng, there is one that is exceedingly characteristic for its own novelties. That is Ryugu-no-muneage (A House-building Ceremony in the Dragon’s palace), but what are novel in it exactly correspond, it can be found, to those in the story of the same kind in Keum-O (Yongun-buyeon-Rok, or Attending the Ceremony in the Dragon’s Palace).
Though there is no record that tells Ryoi’s learning from it, evidence is enough to show that he owes much to Kim Si-Sub so far as this story is concerned. Here are pointed out the similarities between these two stories quite apart from Ch’ien Teng, so that the proposition here I laydown can be all fulfilled.
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