This article was intended to reveal a group of Japanese colonial era's activities, focusing on the 'Park Chang-hwa materials' discovered at the Japanese Imperial Household Agency. Park Chang-hwa, widely known in academia as making a pseudograph of Hwa...
This article was intended to reveal a group of Japanese colonial era's activities, focusing on the 'Park Chang-hwa materials' discovered at the Japanese Imperial Household Agency. Park Chang-hwa, widely known in academia as making a pseudograph of Hwarang segi (Annals of the Hwarang 花郞世記) and worked as a part-time employee of Japanese Imperial Household Ministry for nearly 10 years. The 'Park Chang-hwa materials' shows only a short period of activities from early October to early December 1937, but it allows us to fully infer what activities he has done as a part-time employ in library of Japanese Imperial Household Ministry. As part of the compilation and investigation of the Joseon-published book collection at the time, he was dispatched to Jongyeonggak Archives in early October 1937 for the mutual comparison and inspection. He examined 1,080 Joseon books of 138 kinds in detail in Jongyeonggak Archives.
'Park Chang-hwa materials' is a report of inspecting the Joseon version stored in the Jongyeonggak Archives in Tokyo, and also informs his stock of academic knowledge. In particular, his explanation of the Early Type suggests that it is also necessary to consider Park Chang-hwa from the perspective of history of bibliography. In other words, 'Park Chang-hwa materials' can be used as a personal research material that sheds light on Park Chang-hwa's personal activities and his different sides. Furthermore, the 'Park Chang-hwa materials' paradoxically shows that data related to Korea, which is still waiting for the help of the Korean academia, is hiding at the Japanese Imperial Household Agency.