지리산권 동학농민혁명의 실상과 동아시아적 의미

Abstract

This article aims to reveal the role of Mt. Jiri(智異山) in the historic significance of the development process of the Donghak Peasant Revolution(東学農民革命). Mt. Jiri carried out various roles either in the history of Donghak establishment or the Donghak Peasant Revolution. First, Mt. Jiri greatly contributed to establish the early Donghak-Thought in 1860. Nonhakmun(『論學文』), which embodies the core idea of Donghak was written at the Namwon(南原) Eunjeok temple(隠寂庵) around Mt. Jiri in 1862. Second, Mt. Jiri had been known as a place where intellectuals traditionally did their studies in seclusion. In those days of the Donghak Peasant Revolution of 1894, Meiquan Hwang, Hyun(梅泉黃玹, 1855.12.11.∼ 1910.9.10.) who had lived at Gurye(求禮) in Jeolla-do(全羅道), testified about the Donghak Peasant Revolution in the historic book, Ohagimun(『梧下記問』). He 'partially' sympathized with the Donghak Peasant army's opinion. Third, at the time of the Donghak Peasant Revolution, many Donghak peasants around Mt. Jiri were victimized by a Japanese massacre. In a daily journal of a Japanese soldier (who had participated in the massacre) identifies the massacre of the Japanese army during the Donghak Peasant Revolution as a 'genocide'.