식민지 조선의 아동과 ‘도쿄’ -제도(帝都)를 둘러싼 표상과 체험-

Abstract

This study analyzed Korean Reader, a Korean textbook used in elementary schoolsof colonized Choseon during Japanese colonial rule of Korea. The present study aimsto identify the images of Tokyo featured in the textbook and examine the natureof Korean elementary school students’ visit to Tokyo. The image of the Japanesecapital city in the textbook was represented as “the city of early modern civilization”in the 1910s, “the city of humanity” in the 1920s, and “the city where people offerprayers for the Japanese Empire” in the 1930s. Korean elementary school students did not have an opportunity to visit Tokyountil after 1937. They visited the city on a field trip, on a trip of inspection, oron a mission to offer prayers in holy places in mainland Japan. The children ofcolonized Choseon were amazed to witness the early modern civilization of Tokyoand the dramatic growth of the capital as an international city after the 1923 GreatKanto earthquake. They felt honored to visit Tokyo. The experience in Tokyo bythe young children, who had not developed self-consciousness yet, was within theframework of the imperialistic education they received.