The reconciliation in Hakubunji" and its sequel: a note on the "reconciliation ceremony" between the sons of Hirobumi Ito and an Jung-gun

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  • 「博文寺の和解劇」と後日談 : 伊藤博文,安重根の息子たちの「和解劇」・覚え書き
  • ハクブンジ ノ ワカイゲキ ト ゴジツダン イトウ ヒロブミ アンジュウ コン ノ ムスコ タチ ノ ワカイゲキ オボエガキ

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This is a sequel to my former article, "The memory of Hirobumi Ito in colonial Korea" (in: Yukio Ito and Yi Sung-huan (eds.), Hirobumi Ito and the Japanese rule of Korea, Minerva shobo, 2009). In 1932, a Buddhist temple Hakubunji was constructed in Keijo to commemorate Hirobumi Ito. The greatest event held there was the "reconciliation" of a son of An Jung-gun and one of Ito. In October 1939, 30 years after the assassination of Ito, An Jun-saeng, a son of An Jung-gun, from Shanghai and Bunkichi Ito from Tokyo met in Keijo and visited Hakubunji together to hold a joint Buddhist memorial service. An Jun-saeng apologized the sin of his father, while Bunkichi Ito accepted his apology and suggested to promote the assimilation process of Japan and Korea. Newspapers emphasized this reconciliation. The foreign affairs department of the Government-General of Korea deeply engaged in this celemony. The act of An Jun-saeng was strictly controlled by Kiyoshi Aiba, a policeman for years engaged in suppression of Korean independence movements, and by Sueyoshi Sonoki, a translator in the An Jung-gun case. After this celemony, a daughter of An Jung-gun and her husband also visited Hakubunji. The reconciliation celemony and its sequel were events produced by the Government-General to show the positive result of the Japanese colonial rule of Korea.

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  • 人文學報

    人文學報 101 81-101, 2011-03

    THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES, KYOTO UNIVERSITY

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