1910~20년대 일본인 저작의 조선 의생활(依生活) 항목 비교 - 이마무라 도모(今村鞆)ㆍ니시무라 신타로(西村眞太郞)ㆍ마츠다 코(松田甲)의 기록을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study analyzed clothing items contained in the following works by Japanese writers: Manners of the Joseon Dynasty, Aspects of the Joseon Dynasty, Diverse Records of the Joseon Dynasty, Essays about the Joseon Dynasty, and Collected Stories of the Joseon Dynasty. Everyday clothing was an element included among principal items to be investigated from the beginning stage when Imperialist Japan planned to identify various manners and customs of the Joseon Dynasty. This study intended to analyze the objectives and viewpoints with which these three Japanese writers made their records. Imamura, an Imperialist policeman, Nisimura, an inspector of the police agency, and Matsuda in charge of exchanges between the Joseon Dynasty and Japan felt it urgent to understand the manners of the Joseon Dynasty for the smooth performance of their official duties in the Joseon Dynasty which they colonized. Their records selectively included clothing items of the Joseon Dynasty. Manners of the Joseon Dynasty made a systematic composition of Jeson’s clothing items while Aspects of the Joseon Dynasty showed a simple description of materialistic and formative properties of Joseon’s dress designs. Matsuda wrote his work in a style similar to essay-writing, lacking in accuracy compared with the other two authors. The three writers were different from each other in the language used. Imamura described in both Chinese letters and Katakana. Nisimura wrote names of dress designs in Korean, indexing them. Matsuda wrote the main body of his work in Korean. Referring to description methods, they adopted three ways in their writing. First, they compared the clothing styles of the Joseon Dynasty with those of Japan. Next, they distinguished between the new ways of clothing style and the ones of the Joseon Dynasty. Finally, they intended to guide the people of the Joseon Dynasty by showing them which aspects of the Joseon clothing styles needed to be improved, and suggesting alternatives for them. These description methods, their viewpoints, and the objectives of their recording the manners of the Joseon Dynasty projected the roles of Imperialist Japan and the justification of them as the principal agent of modernizing the colonized Joseon Dynasty.