오사나이 가오루의 「김옥균」에 나타난 시대 재현과 김옥균의 위상 ─ 오사나이의 ‘그 시대’와 1920년대 ‘신극’ 운동과 관련해서 ─

Abstract

This paper aims to focus on the stature of Kim, Ok-gyun by looking at Osanai’s purpose of the historical drama, the error of historical resources and representation of the times through Osanai Garou’s Kim Ok-gyun. Osanai’s goal was to reproduce the crisis of the 1920’s through historical figure Kim, Ok-gyun. In an effort to modernize the Japanese play/drama, Osanai wrote the historical play Kim Ok-gyun, to document difficulties and hardship that he had faced during the theatrical reform movement, just like the actual Kim in 1880’s who wrote the Gapsin Document, on the Gapsion Reform that Kim initiated for Chosun’s independence, national prosperity and military power in hopes to free Chosun from the control of Qing. The character Kim, in Osanai’s Kim Ok-gyun has been dead for more than 20 years, however, to the Japanese people, he is still remembered as the figure who sacrificed himself for the sake of the country, and as the historical and universal figure who is respected beyond the time and space, in both Japan and Chosun. In that sense, it is necessary to study historical, theoretical and vertical researches on Kim and Gapsin Reform until today to review the stature of Kim from literal, social and horizontal aspects of different times.