This article examines the representation of Korea in the special war supplements of Fūzoku Gahō, Japan’s earliest illustrated magazine, during the Sino-Japanese War (1894~1895). It argues that the transition from Nisshin Sensō Zue to Seishin Zue marked a structural shift from sequential battle reportage to a retrospective narrative framing that positioned the war as historically grounded and inevitable. Through the concept of “unfinished dream” (Zanmu), earlier political crises—particularly the 1884 Gapsin Coup—were reinterpreted not as concluded events but as unresolved conditions extending into the present, allowing the war to be cast as the completion of an unfinished past. At the same time, visual strategies derived from the Japanese tradition of Meisho-e (illustrations of famous places) were extended to Seoul, reorganizing it from a site of military action into a legible and ordered urban landscape through changes in scale, framing, and editorial juxtaposition. By foregrounding these spatio-temporal reconfigurations, this study suggests that illustrated magazines in modern Japan did not simply report wartime events but actively shaped narrative continuity and spatial intelligibility, integrating foreign space and historical memory into an emerging imperial visual order.
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.