구스노키 마사시게(楠正成)의 「칠생멸적(七生滅賊)」과 천황중심 사생관의 탄생과 전개

Abstract

In this thesis we contemplated the influence of the death of the military general Kusunoki Masashigewho appeared in the war chronicle books 『Taiheiki』 in Japanese medieval times on Japanese view onlife and death. The view on life and death of Chilsangmyeoljeok of Masashige was the object of worshipby Confucian scholars in modern ages, and out of them particularly Yoshida Syoin advocated Chilsangseolcomparing himself to Masashige. The scholars who were influenced by Syoin in the ending Edo eradeified Masashige through Namgongje (memorial service) and this induced the foundation of MinatogawaShrine that worship Masashige as a god. Like the above, together with the deification of Masashige aseries of processes to formalize memorial service for martyr to the cause of the affairs of a nationgenerated in the political strife in the ending Edo era and Meiji-Ishin had an influence on theconstruction of Tokyo shrine which is the former Yasukuni Shrine. It can be thought that the deificationof the hero Kusunoki Masashige progressed meticulously by the leader class at that time was toeventually to induce extreme view on life and death the center of which was the Japanese emperor thatregard death as honor, and such a radical view on life and death was instilled into the nationals whocarried out war to be used for the construction of the empire whose center was the Japanese emperor.