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Location Estimate of Daebang-gun by Ikeuchi Hiroshi and Its Characteristics

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2014, (54), pp.55-86
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : June 30, 2014
  • Accepted : August 4, 2014

Kaya Wee 1

1성균관대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Ikeuchi Hiroshi (池內宏) is one of the Japanese historians who devotedhimself to positive-historical research of East Asian history in modern Japan. This study is aimed at figuring out whether or not his estimate of thelocation of Daebang-gun (帶方郡) — one of the four Han Commanderies (漢郡縣) in ancient Korea — and its influence on “positive-historical” researchare based on “rationalism” from the academic perspective. As a result, thestudy has examined the following facts. Ikeuchi maintained that Daebang-gun was located downstream from theHan River during the period of the Han Commanderies (漢郡縣). Hispositive-historical research made in the process was less precise than otherstudies of his and was far from the mode of rationalism. Besides, whencompared with other studies of Ikeuchi, such an academic suggestion wasbased on a view that “the history and culture of old Korea had beensubordinate to Manchuria (滿鮮史觀),” which was fully based on theheterogenous character of Korean history at its core. Ikeuchi’s understanding of the location of Daebang-gun was almostidentical with that of Shiratori Kurakichi (白鳥庫吉) and Tsuda Soukichi (津田左右吉). It must be noted that both scholars were the so-called “historiansof Manchuria-Korea (滿鮮史學者)” who made research of the relations between Manchuria and Joseon as they were working at the Historic-geographical Research Center of South Manchuria Railway Companies (南滿州鐵道會社). Although Ikeuchi had long proclaimed the importance of “positive-historicalresearch” and “rationalism” in his academic study, he only betrayed his ownphilosophy when the two ideas encountered with what he had regarded ascommon knowledge: the heteronomy of Korean history. This clearly showsthat even positive-historical research is not totally irrelevant to the reality andthe period of a historian.

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