일본어판 「오도답파여행」을 쓴 것은 누구인가

Abstract

In the summer of 1917, Yi Gwangsu had finished to serialize “Mujong” (無情Heartless) and made a trip to the south part of Korea Peninsula by request of newspaper company. During the trip, he serialized a travelogue “O do Tappa Yoheng” (五道踏破旅行 A Trip around Five Prefectures) in Korean at “Meil Sinbo” (毎日申報) and “Godō Tōha Ryokō” in Japanese at “Keijō Nippō” (京城日報) at the same time. Later Yi Gwang-su put “O do Tappa Yoheng” in the book, titled “Pando Kangsan”(半島江山 Peninsula Landscape 1939) and clarified, in the preface, that he began to write the travelogue both in Korean and Japanese after Jonju but, because of a serious illness he suffered at Moppo(木浦), his friend Sim Usop(沈友燮) translated those of Moppo, Tadohe(多島海)and Kyongju(慶州) that Yi Gwangsu wrote in Japanese into Korean. But “Keijō Nippō” carried the serial travelogue in 5 installment before Jonju, which contradicts with the above description in the preface. A question arises then: Who wrote this part? In this paper I reason that Nakamura Kentarō(中村健太郎), a Japanese who acted as a managing editor of “Meil Sinbo” wrote this in Japanese, rewriting Yi Gwangsu’s Korean manuscript. After the trip to Tadohe, Yi Gangsu wrote the travelogue of Jinju(晋州) and Tongyong (統営) again in the two languages, Korean and Japanese. But quite a confusion is observed in the placing order or the writing date. Organizing the itinerary of his trip in accordance with the Korean travelogue in “Meil Sinbo”, Yi Gangsu, after leaving Tongyong, went straight to Tongne Spa(東莱温泉) where he took a rest, and then spent three days in Heunde(海雲台). It is likely that he completed the travelogue of Jinju in Korean and also wrote those of Jinju and Tongyong in Japanese during this period.