Notes on "Yamashita Treasure Tales"

梶原 景昭

doi:10.18910/8598

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「山下財宝」の行方
ヤマシタザイホウノユクエ

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There is a wide spread rumor that General Yamashita of The Japanese Army buried their war coffer consisted of gold bullions, precious stones, and silver coins in the Philippine soil when they expected the defeat of the Pacific War. Today, many of Filipinos and others are still engaged in treasure hunting in various parts of the country. This paper aims to interpret Yamashita treasure tales from the following five perspectives. 1) The rumor emerged and has been maintained at the socio-cultural interface between Japan and the Philippines. 2) Yamashita treasure tales show a conspicious nature as a folk tale tainted deeply with a historical tragectory and cosmology of the society. 3) Treasure tales and treasure hunting there reveal the meaning of wealth and scarcity in its historico-economic process of the country since the end of the Pacific War to the present. 4 ) The tale also shows the inter-relations between the Philippines and its outside world. 5 ) Aquisition of the treasure or at least the rumor of it implies the relations between wealth and power. The rumor that Ferdinand Marcos obtained hidden treasure somehow, though strangely, legitimized his enormous political standing.

Journal

年報人間科学

年報人間科学 16 21-37, 1995

大阪大学人間科学部社会学・人間学・人類学研究室

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CRID: 1390853649143047424

NII Article ID: 110004746801

NII Book ID: AN0020011X

DOI: 10.18910/8598

HANDLE: 11094/8598

ISSN: 02865149

Text Lang: ja

Article Type: departmental bulletin paper

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