越南五戸寺の明命九年銘鐘をめぐって(I) : ベトナムへの返還運動とその意義

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The Ngo Ho(五戸)temple is located in Bac Ninh(北寧)Tu Son(慈山)district, Vo Giang(武江)commune of Kim Doi(金堆)village. The epigraph (1829) tells us of how the temple bell had been lost and replaced three times. 25 years ago, the third bell which had been plundered in Japanese in 1942, was found in Tokyo. A campaign to restore the bell was launched in Japan. Donations poured in from all over Japan and the bell was sent back in friendship to Vietnam. The bell stands as witness not only of peasant life in the 19th century, but also of the transformation of the Japanese attitude from plunder to friendship. This article (I) seeks to introduce the Japanese campaign to restore the bell and (II) to introduce to the public the epigraph and its translation. Due to their tumultuous history, very few historical documents are left in Vietnam. We hope that the epigraph will be included in the "Vietnamese-Chinese Epigraph Collection"(越南漢喃銘文匯編)as a bridge of the friendship between Japan and Vietnam.
拓殖大学の論文
2004-03-30