손진태(孫晋泰)의 시조 인식과 제국의 시선

Abstract

This paper is based on Son Jin-tae’s academic foundation, discussing his perception of Sijo (時調). The aim is to understand the research perspectives and methodologies inherent in the JoeseonGogayojip (朝鮮古歌謠集). Among them, Son Jin-tae’s perception of Sijo and his research were intended to follow the Japanese people’s theory of ethnicity in Joseon and even colonial discourse. In the 1920s, Son Jin-tae’s academic foundation was based on folklore that studied the history of national culture. Above all, Son Jin-tae paid attention to the culture of the people that faithfully showed the spirit of Joseon. At the same time, he studied Joseon’s children’s songs, folk songs, and poetry with interest in the remaining Korean literature materials. In particular, Son Jin-tae sought to discover the characteristics of the Joseon people through Korean literature materials, and in this regard, it was confirmed that his theory of Korean literature was part of folk research. Son Jin-tae’s theory of Sijo was also focused on Joseon and its ethnicity. Thus, his perception of the sijo was that of ‘Joseon’, which was far from Chinese Confucian culture, and, in his words, of locality. Furthermore, Son Jin-tae paid attention to the value of Saseol-Sijo (辭說時調). As a result, Son Jin-tae found the origin of the Sijo from the folk songs and presented the framework of Sijo-history which developed from the Saseol-Sijo (辭說時調) to the Pyeong-sijo (平時調). The anti-Chinese and antinobilism national consciousness, which was the basis of folklore discussions, was linked to the Saseol-Sijo (辭說時調). It was observed that Son Jin-tae’s view of research was in line with Japanese scholars’ social studies of Joseon, or ethnography. The unique ethnic characteristics of Joseon, which he tried to reveal by retrospecting the origins of the Saseol-Sijo (辭說時調), were the same as the ‘Joseon color’ demanded by the empire of the time. It was also confirmed that the ideology of the empire lies in the background of ethnic description through the progenitor of the Joseon Dynasty. In the end, Son Jin-tae’s recognition of Sijo revealed that Japanese colonial discourse and their rituals were mixed and crossed.