This study focused on the following purposes. At first, it traced the preconditions that helped turn corresponding envoys into media events. In Ushimado, Okayama Prefecture, for example, the foundations of museum and art gallery, the establishments of ...
This study focused on the following purposes. At first, it traced the preconditions that helped turn corresponding envoys into media events. In Ushimado, Okayama Prefecture, for example, the foundations of museum and art gallery, the establishments of the Council of Korean Corresponding Envoy and the Enterprise of Korean and Japanese Cultural Exchange of Korean Corresponding Envoy, and the emergence of lifetime education and civil study made crucial contributions to developing the media events related to Korean corresponding envoy. In addition, the learning programs that dealt with the activities of Korean corresponding envoy were often offered in the local museums of the 80s, which was possible because the Japanese in those days had an increasing interest in their national culture. In short, an idea of lifetime education (which is often called social education in our country) that pursues the realization of a learning society with the benefits of the high growth of Japanese economy called attention to the significance and necessity of the study of history in modern society and resulted in a variety of media events.
Second, this study researched and looked into three matsuris related to corresponding envoy. Especially, based on a visit to <karako odori> of Ushimado, Okayama Prefecture, it could analyze the view that the Japanese of E-do era had kept of <foreign countries> or <foreigners> in these intangible cultural assets. Third, this study also looked through the tangible cultural assets of Korean corresponding envoy. Categorizing the form and content of visual materials concerning the corresponding envoy, it divided the category of form into the tangible materials of picture screen, portrait, picture scroll, craft work, and woodcut print and the intangible materials of Japanese festival and play and gave more focus to the former. Fourth, this study explored the relation between Korean corresponding envoy and the culture of ordinary people, checking the itinerary of Korean corresponding envoy of E-do era and tracing how the local people living near it inherited and developed the Korean corresponding envoy's footprints. As a result, this study intended to analyze the tendency of promoting Korean envoy into media events that attracted Japanese people, to reveal the problems of Japanese cultural industry, and to take into detailed consideration the characteristics of (pre-)modern Japan including Korean corresponding envoy on both governmental and civil levels.