2017, Vol.44, No.

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pISSN : 2005-6222 / eISSN : 2713-7511
https://journal.kci.go.kr/ifhs

Creative thinking is emphasized throughout the modern society. This research aims to examine the concept of ‘taking image( )’ that has been revealed creativity through representation, symbol and free imagination in East Asia.‘Taking image’ is the basic thought of artistic creation of East Asia for how created visual images can induce new experiences and realize artistic values by mobilizing all senses. The category of ‘image( )’ had been presented in Yi Zhuan( ) for the first time as a means of making up for the limit of language and connecting with saint’s deep meanings and further more keeping symbolizations and implications. ‘Taking image’ activities which went through aesthetic modification have created diverse images and viewpoints of interpretation ceaselessly from the emblem, imagination and metaphor to stages of artistic creations and appreciation. ‘Taking image’ as art activities are to reflect experiences of creator through the formation of relationship with objects and more to authorize the artistic value to the simple objects. Images obtained artistic value have to create the stage of imaginative communication in relationship with creator and appreciator that transcend time.

This article is a fresh attempt to conceptualize the novel handling Climbing. It has been 100 years since the modern mountain movement started in the Alps in the early 20th century, and entered in Korea later. Despite the international competitiveness of technology and increasing number of climbing population, it has shown relatively slower progress in documentary literature. Firstly, clarification of terms is required. We are not so discriminative between 'mountain' and 'mountain climbing as we use it as customary. This is due to the influx of modern mountain movements from Japan. This is because the Japanese term, which translated ‘Alpine’ of English into 'mountain', was used without filtering. As 'mountain' was used as a universal term for 'mountain climbing', 'climbing' and 'mountain' became synonymous. Assuming custom has its own semantic structure, the concept of 'mountain literature' can be considered as a subject of consideration and customary definition. When we discuss genre theory, 'literature' can be classified such as philosophy, sociology, and physics. Aristotle’s "poetry", a traditional genre theory, can be branched into lyric poetry, epic poetry, and drama. The range of literature containing mountain is quite broad. "Mountain literature" contains life of common people who live on mountains, people who climbs mountains, animals and plants making up mother nature, songs related to mountains, fables, language, and custom. So-called 'climbing novel' is just a part of epics, which is talking about the mountain climber. Climbing is a means and goal itself in modern climbing. And we call it ‘Alpinism’.

A number of researchers concerned with the origins of the Russo-Japanese War have remarked on the so-called ‘scapegoat theory’, which emphasized on the roles of the clique around A. M. Bezobrazov at the outbreak of the war between Russia and Japan in the beginning of the 20-th century. The theory explained that the adventurers, including Bezobrazov, tried to seek the commercial interests around the Yalu River and stimulated the Japanese to attack on Russia. This article is to examine the relationships between the origins of the Russo-Japanese War and Bezobrazov’s clique. I traced the organization and activities of the group in detail. In result, it is thought that the influences of Bezobrazov’s clique on the Russo-Japanese war must not be overemphasized. The best days of the clique and the downfall of S. lu. Witte who was regarded as the main opponent against the clique, did not coincide. Moreover, the tsar’s government did not provide any aid to the clique, which encountered the financial crisis in June, 1903. It was not the adventurous activities of Bezobrazov’s clique but the groundless optimism of the Russian government that resulted to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War.