This paper discusses the image of women of the Taisho era in the women’s graphic magazine, Fujin-gaho from the point of view of the relationship between women and cloth. Women’s morality has been connected with treating cloth: making clothes means to sit straight and silently keep working hard inside a house while wearing clean, plain clothes meant to keep men’s eyes away. Both actions are connected to women’s chasteness. However, in modern times, the meanings of the two actions began to diverge. On making clothes, although the kind of handiwork had changed from sewing to embroidery or hemstitch of handkerchiefs which was the status symbol of the middleclass, the morality of women’s chasteness remained. On the other hand, on wearing clothes, the morality diminished and geisha’s way of dressing was regarded attractive and their fashion began to fit into general women’s fashion. Also, handkerchiefs became an item to express sadness or coquetry of women and to appeal to men. One of the reasons of the mixture of women’s appearance is the development of consumerism. The other is the succession of Japanese traditional feminine gesture using a cloth such as waving or biting a cloth. Women’s beauty in modern times caused by these two factors was encouraged by the medium of graphic magazines.
한국일본언어문화학회 [Japanese Language & Culture Association of Korea]
설립연도
2001
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본문학은 물론, 일본의 정치, 경제, 문화, 사회 등의 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구 및 일본의 언어, 문화를 매체로 한 한국과의 비교 연구를 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 학회는 회원들에게 연구 발표 및 정보 교환의 기회를 부여하고 나아가 한국에서의 바람직한 일본 연구 자세를 확립하는 것을 주된 목표로 하고 있다.