朝鮮総督府の神社政策における国幣小社列格 : 「国魂大神」奉斎を中心に (生瀬克己教授追悼号)

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This paper presents a new theory about the logic of "State Shinto" (国家神道), whose main component was the worship of the ancestral goddess of Japan's Imperial House. First, I show that the logic was still forming at the stage of the foundation of Chosen-jingu (朝鮮神宮) in 1925. Chosen-jingu belonged to one of the types of "State Shinto," which was the type to be recognized as the top shrines symbolizing Ise-jingu (伊勢神宮) in Japanese colonies.I then analyze Kunitamano-ohkami (国魂大神), who was one of two main gods placed to be worshiped at the shrines promoted to Kokuhei-shohsha (国幣小社), whose status was the sixth of all the nationally-supported shrines. The Government-General realized that Kunitamano-ohkami was the ancestral god of the Korean people, the other being Amaterasu-ohmikami (天照大神), who is well-known as the ancestral goddess of Japan's Imperial House. The Japanese government had intended to have this goddess take up her superior position among the many gods of all shrines in order to create Japanese nationalism all over "the Empire of Japan."The author educes the logic of "Piety and Ancestor Worship" (敬神崇祖) from the relationship between those two deities.
2008-07-07