중일전쟁기 지방 유림의 성격과 전쟁 협력시의 실상-전남 유림의 『황군위문사(皇軍慰問詞)』를 중심으로-

Abstract

Published through the efforts led by Jeollanam-do and engaging the region's Confucian scholars, Hwanggunwimunsa (皇軍慰問詞 'Consolation for Imperial Army') is a collection of poems that expressed wishes for the victory of the Japanese armed forces participating in the Sino-Japanese War, glorified their invasion from the Confucian standpoint, and argue that Koreans should cooperate aggressively. The poetry collection mostly composed of quatrains with five Chinese characters in each line carries poems by total 185 poets in fourteen groups and in two sections, and the authors of the poems provided justification to the Imperialist Japan and saw China a savage nation while regarding the invasion as a holy war or a retaliation against violence. Moreover, the authors justified the Japanese invasion based on Confucian rationale and rallied the Korean people into an active cooperation. The collected poetry was published around October 1937, just three months after the end of the Sino-Japanese War, which came before Seongjeonseongsijib (聖戰誠詩集 'Collected Poetry Dedicated to the Holy War'; December 1937) published by Gyeonghakwon (經學院 'Confucian Academy'), which makes it the first Sino-Korean poetry book supporting the war, published after the Sino-Japanese War. This came two years before Jeonseonsijib (戰線詩集 'Warfront Poetry Book') by Im Hak-su, which is touted as the first poetry book of a Korean man of letters, and it shows that the response from the regional Confucian scholars came before the collaborative action from the Korean literary world. What is notable about the persons who contributed their poems is that most of them were at once regional bureaucrats such as county mayors, provincial assembly members, and myeon council members and key figures closely related to irrigation association and financial coop, which are understood as Japanese colonialist arms for exploiting the local agricultural communities. A considerable portion of these people were also in charge of teaching at regional hyanggyo ('regional confucian academy'), which shows that hyanggyo in each region in the late Japanese occupation period was under government control, having practically fallen into a regional institution for colonialist indoctrination. In conclusion, as what reveals an aspect of Sino-Korean poetry creation that at once betrayed a facette of the regional Confucian scholars' response in the period of total mobilization and their collaborative activities, this work holds the identity of pro-Japanese literature, written in Sino-Korean instead of Korean.