1900~1910년대 세키노 타다시(關野貞)의 조선 문화 연구

Abstract

Korea was under Japanese colonial rule from 1910 to 1945. Imperial Japan elaborately investigated Korean traditional culture, history, remains and relics for the purpose of effected rules. Many Japanese scholars were mobilized to exam Korean Culture. Sekino Tadashi(1867~1935) took a important roles for these tasks who was a professor of The Tokyo National University. He organized Korean traditional remains and relics and wrote the Koran Art History at 1932 which was fist published books on this subject. This article examined Sekino Tadashi's writings and activities on Korean Culture during 1900s~1910s. First, at the 1900s, he prescribed the identity of Korean culture which approaches based on the theory of Orientalism. Second, at the late of 1900s, he eagerly tried to spread his arguments to Japanese and Korean people through both public lectures and publishing books. Third, at the 1910s, he had authorities in the Colonized Korean societies because his works were widely introduced on newspapers and were cited by Korean scholars. Sekino Tadashi's Study on Korean Culture closely connected with the Japanese Orientalism to the colonized Korean peoples. Many Korean scholars who against Japanese forced insistences confronted Sekino's theory during 1920s~1930s. So the examination of his works and activities on Korean culture are the important step to approach the themes of the origin of Korean Studies. Therefore we will need to compare with Sekono’s theory and other Japanese scholars who cooperated to establish Imperial Japanese rules through academic works on Korean Studies.