폐허의 고도와 창조된 신도(神都)

Abstract

Buyeo was an ancient city that had been forgotten for a long time since a fall of Baekje. The image in Baekje and Buyeo, which are seen here and there until the 1920s, is the one in the declined ancient kingdom and is being automated to be indicated sentiment of remorse on one scene in the fallen history. What the modern image on a city called Buyeo started to be produced was a situation before and after 1929. Its important chance can be taken what Buyeo Ancient-family Preservation Association, which was established in 1915, was changed into a foundation in 1929. The introduction on Buyeo, which is observed in newspaper articles or travel sketches since then, is delivering intention of re-discovering Buyeo as a city equivalent to Gyeongju or Pyeongyang. Buyeo is being illuminated again as a historically ancient city of standing now against Gyeongju or Pyeongyang. As a place that makes Joseon and Japan have the extremely deep relationship beyond even the contemporary policy called ‘Naeseonyunghwa內鮮融和-Japan and Joseon need to be reconciled).’ it is what again makes identity of Buyeo. It is what newly casts a symbol of Buyeo through recognizing that it is difficult to be imagined except a place called Buyeo if there had been relationship something significant in history of both countries. As the government-general announces a plan for establishing Buyeo Shindo Shrine(扶餘神宮) in March of 1939, a situation comes to be varied completely. Buyeo, which was newly born as Shindo City(神都), is re-illuminated as a city that has brilliantly cultural heritage in the past, not a small town anymore where was forgotten. This urban plan, which newly makes Buyeo for intellects in the colonial times, implied the moment of being revived ancient-city Buyeo, which is recalled just wealth and prosperity in distant old days with being decayed for over 1000 years. At the same time, it also signified that the qualification of ‘Shindo City(神都),’ which there is just one even in the mainland Japan, is given to a regional city of Joseon. 『Baekmagang River』, which is Kim Dong-in's long historical novel, can be raised as a piece of work that corresponds to movement in the early 1940s when having aimed to build Buyeo as Shindo City(神都) as a place that proves a holy ground in Naeseonilche(內鮮一體) and affinity in ‘blood’ for Naeseon(內鮮), which had been followed from ancient times. In comparison with 『Baekmagang River』 that will need to be regarded as a representative case of pro-Japanese literature, 『Heukchisangji(黑齒常之)』, which is Hyeon Jin-geon's unfinished long work, needs to be examined. A symbol called Baekje is drifting between image of the ruined ancient kingdom, which causes racial sorrow, and a name of ancient nation, which becomes a proof of genuine affinity with Japan.