부산의 일본귀신전설에 대한 도시민속학적 고찰

Abstract

This treatise aims at the explanation about the modern legend that Japanese ghosts are appeared at Ami-dong in Busan. To make the explanation clear, it is necessary to investigate the history and folk-belief of Ami-dong and to connect those together as regional culture. According to the result of investigation about history and folk-belief, most of all, the emigrants' history to use the Japanese's public cemetery as building site is the psychological cause of the belief. It was occurred in 1945 and 1951 to change the tombs as building site when the immigrants and emigrants came in Busan from abroad and hometown because of liberation(독립) from Japan empire(1945) and Korean war(1951). To settle at Ami-dong they had to build house, so they dig tombs and destructed pot in which skeletal ashes were. The tombs were made for the Japanese citizens who were died and buried in Japanese colonial days. Because of the accidents, they felt guilty for a long time because it is immoral action to break dead person's tomb for living person according to Oriental tradition. Therefore, this treatise suggests that the modern legend of Japanese ghosts were originated from the guilties to Japanese dead persons.