2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

An historical geography of historic landscapes in colonial Korea

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20520682
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Human geography
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	KOMEIE Taisaku Kyoto University, 文学研究科, 准教授 (10315864)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	植民地主義 / ツーリズム / 古蹟 / 扶余 / 百済 / 扶余神宮
Research Abstract	Conservation of historic sites was one of the important projects in colonial Korea under the Japanese domination. Historic places regarding to ancient kingdoms, Shilla, Baekje, and Goguryeo, came to be not only academic concern of Japanese historians but also attractions in colonial tourism. Local conservation societies made efforts to encourage Japanese travelers to visit those sites as places with close relationship with ancient Japan. In those cases heritage spaces worked as places where the visitors experienced 'past Japan' and imaginative geographies deeply incorporated with colonialism. This study provides a special reference of the case of Buyeo, the last capital city of Baekje Kingdom.