일본 고등학생들이 읽은 윤동주

Abstract

“Selected Contemporary Writings B”, created by Chikuma Shobo and Ministry of Education, Science and Culture in Japan after an intractable negotiation, is the only textbook that includes content relating to Yun Dong-ju(윤동주)in the Japanese language textbook. It includes an essay called “Sky, Wind, Star and Poem”, written by Noriko Ibaragi, a woman poet who is representative of the world of Japanese poetry. This essay summarizes and explains the poems and the life of Yun Dong-ju by citing “Foreword”, “A Poem I’ve Written Easily” and “An Impressionist Painting of My Younger Brother”. In the essay, she highlights his tragic death by contrasting the limpid young poet with brutal violence from the Japanese Imperialism. In addition, “guidelines” and “issues” in this textbook offer Japanese people today to continually recall the historical fact that the Japanese Imperialism have taken the innocent young poet’s life. In this point, this textbook is determined to be the proof that shows it adopted the content relating to Yun Dong-ju for teaching, by based on the educational goal that expect students to grow as a person who have an accurate historical recognition. In 2016, “The occasional thoughts ‘Sky, Wind, Star and Poem (Noriko Ibaragi)’ the collection of written description of its impressions” was published under Hagiwara Shigeru, the assistant principal of Kichijoji High School, supervision in the form of miscellany is the clear case that demonstrates how Yun Dong-ju is taught to the Japanese high school students and how his poems read by them. The main feedback shown in the collection of written description of its impressions was the physical pain　that appears when they find the truth that people in olden times put innocent young people as Yun Dong-ju. Moreover, by Japanese high school students learn more about him, there were contents universally shown about reliving the feeling of pain and discrimination that colonials had no choice but to experience them. On the other hand, there were some written description of its impressions show that there is the mood of schematic aspect that part of his poem forcibly reduce to the confrontation between rulers and people who were ruled in the Japanese teaching reality. Furthermore, there were some case that students read his poem and understand deeply here and there. The points that he was the kind of person who think deeply about life and death, his imagination is product of immaturity in his adolescent period, and his “Star” has a type of personality that image of death, were seem to be the opinions which are close enough to the level of quasi-experts. Additionally, the case that read his poem in relation to “Barefoot Gen” which is the symbol of the Japanese Anti-war and Peace Movement was also the case that show the potential of Anti-war and Peace Movement in solidarity with Japan-Korea.