朝鮮出土の磨製石劍 : 細形銅劍を模した一群に就いて

Abstract

The early invasion by the bearers of daggers, halberds and spear-heads of bronze was the first of the long series of contacts between Korea and the higher civilizations of the Asiatic Continent. It ranks in importance beside such later influences as those of the Han and T'ang Empires. Of these weap- ons the daggers were predominant, and were copied in stone by the natives in Korea, who had been still living in a neolithic economy. The stone daggers have a relatively flat blade and are classified into two groups: (A) terminates in a square butt from which projects a short narrow tang, and (B) is provided with a hilt, Both have two subtypes; (a) blades with grooves along a midrib, and (b) blades without a groove. As to the bronze daggers in north-eastern Asia, three types are recognized as shown in Fig. 2. Although the types A-a and B-a have a strong resemblance to the bronze daggers of type 3 in Fig. 2, scholars used to emphasize the similarity between the other types of stone daggers (A-b, BI-b, BII in Fig. 1) and the other bronze daggers - (1) & (2) in Fig. 2. However, no reliable scytho-siberian type daggers were found in Korea; and very few actual findings of the swords of the type chien were reported. Analysing the distribution of bronze daggers and stone daggers (maps Fig. 3 & 4), I conclude that even the stone daggers with a hilt copied the bronze daggers of type 3 in Fig. 2. They may have been provided with hilts and sheathes which have perished.