『東京朝日新聞』에 연재한 오카모토 잇페이(岡本一平)의 <朝鮮漫画行>(1927): 신문 만화에 그려진 일본 통치하의 한국

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ㆍ발행기관 : 한국미술연구소 ㆍ수록지정보 : 美術史論壇 / 38권
ㆍ저자명 : 야마모토 사에

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Ippei Okamoto (1886－1948) was an enormously popular cartoonist in Japan before World War Ⅱ. He had published a number of comics in The Tokyo Asahi Newspaper, developing a new expressive style of “manga” (comic) caricature in newspapers known as “punch.” He also expanded the genre by drawing on themes from a variety of sources, including political and children's comics. Okamoto was a pioneer in developing comic representation and enhanced the genre’s relationship to social issues.
In 1927, he traveled to Korea. That same year, he subsequently published the serial comic travel diary titled “Chosen Manga Kou” (The Korean Comic Tour) in the Tokyo Asahi Newspaper. With Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910, Korea became a popular destination for Japanese travelers. Traversing this attractive tourist route was a means to explore Japan’s territory in the world. Following annexation, the Tokyo Asahi Newspaper Publishing Company immediately planned group package tours that traveled by steamer to Manchuria and Korea. These kinds of travel packages and the newspaper’s various media events, including Okamoto’s Korean tour, contributed to a Korean tour boom that would last until 1940. 1927 was a year in which tourist travel to Korea increased markedly.
During the late 1920s, many famous Japanese painters traveled to colonial Korea to paint the Korean landscape and women. However, they created idealized images of their subjects from the viewpoint of tourist onlookers, distanced from the lived conditions on the peninsula. In contrast, Okamoto observed and talked with Korean men and women of various social classes; occasionally, he drew figures for his comic diary. Although Okamoto drew his travel diary as recreational story narrated with funny episodes and selfdeprecating humor, his work also provides a glimpse of the reality of Korean society under Japanese rule.

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