메이지(明治) 시대 신문에 게재된 전쟁 괴담 연구

Abstract

This study aims to clarify its characteristics through analysis of the types and contents of war stories published in newspapers in the Meiji period of Japan. Since war-related rumors formed in the Meiji period were distributed through modern media called newspapers, they are popular and universal in terms of mass-production of information, and since they were passed down through newspapers and magazines even after the Daisho period, they need to be studied. To this end, in this study, a total of 60 war ghost stories contained in “明治期怪異妖怪記事資料集成”(2009) published by Yumoto Koichi were used as the subject of the study to categorize war ghost stories and examine their characteristics through specific case analysis. As a result, each of these types of ghost stories has a variety of characteristics, including mourning for death hidden by state power, the nation's faith and input of war propaganda, expressing wishes through people's faith, and a new mysterious space built at the point of conflict between tradition and civilization. The story of the Meiji War, a mixture of suppression by modern Japanese state power and fear and sadness from death, was used as a place of sympathy and a tool of remembrance at the public level and a political tool to adapt to the imperial order system. In addition, the story of the Meiji War, which was formed in this way, was told through newspapers and magazines during the Taisho period, and was consumed in the form of publication even after the war. In the future, research will be continued from the perspective of transmission and transmission of modern Japanese war stories, including these documents.