임진왜란 —일본 고등학교 역사교과서 분석—

Abstract

This paper studies the contents about the Japanese Invasions in 1592 in Japanese highschool textbooks. First, they mostly explain the background of the Japanese Invasions in 1592 to Hideyoshi’s ambition to conquering the Ming dynasty for transforming the international system as the representative reason, although there are some different mode of expression about the Hideyoshi’s war of aggression. Second, they give expression to the winning streak of Japanese military in early period of this war, Ming’s military involvement, the activity of Joseon’s navy force and righteous armies, peace negotiations, the recurrence of the Japanese invasions in 1597, Hideyoshi’s death, and Japanese army’s retreat with the progress of war. And some of the textbooks describe war-weariness within Japanese army, the succession of the wounded, commissioned officers’ discord. Third, they bring to a conclusion that the Japanese Invasions in 1592 is the war of aggression for Joseon with the character of war. In a partial aspect, they keep describing some terms like ‘the dispatch of troops’, and ‘sent out a troop’. Forth, they confine the damage of war or the brutality of war within the general description. But they use a emotional description about an ache of Japanese. And it make them easily build up some wrong-headed cognitions that everyone fall a victim in the war. Fifth, they don’t actively describe the influence or the result of the war as aggression, but give an account of the simple cultural influence of it. They explain that Joseon was badly damaged, and that the increasing military funds and the committing military force drove Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s political power into a state of decline. And in the partial mention, they describe Joseon’s culture to be spreaded into Japan, due to the pillaged goods, Joseon scholars and potters were taken to. And lastly, there is need to change the title of the Japanese Invasions in 1592 to the different wording which can make the meaning clearer among three country that have used other title on the same war.