Taihoku Higher school student’s literary workTake Un-nyo and Anzu for example

• Main Authors: Isoko Tsuda, 津田勤子
• Other Authors: Tsai, Jin-Tang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/q7y9un

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 台灣語文學系 === 104 === This study aims to explore the student culture of Japanese colonial Taiwan with special focus on the Taihoku Higher School(THS). Using the 1943-1945 circular magazines Un-nyo（雲葉）and Anzu （杏）as major examples, I discuss the literary works of the students during the war-time period. Un-nyo was edited by senior students who entered into the common department(尋常科) of THS in 1940. Anzu was edited by three students of the higher department(高等科) who majored in sciences. Both magazines contain poem, Haiku, Waka, essays and short story along with research reports written in Japanese. 　 The main purposes and key arguments of this study can be summarized in threefold. First of all, I clarify the historical background of the student literary works. Founded in Meiji period, the Higher schools in Japan have their unique ideals, history and student culture. As the only higher school in colonial Taiwan, THS carries on the special intellectual heritage. And the campus and student culture transformed during the war-time period. Secondly, I uncover rare sources of student magazines. Consisting of fourteen volumes, this copy of Un-nyo and Anzu is the only available source on THS student culture. The case studies offer detailed introduction of the magazine editors and authors and discuss the changing motivation, styles and contents of every issue. Last but not least, I provide in-depth analysis of more than three hundred texts of magazines Un-nyo and Anzu. Look into the external circumstances and inner world of these literary works, I pay special attention to the difference between Taiwanese and Japanese students and compare the modes of thinking and narrative between students from the common and higher departments. Higher schools and their graduates in Japan have been proud of their education ideals of humanism, cosmopolitanism, individualism and intellectual leadership which contrast sharply from the practices of militarism and nationalism of Japanese state. I argue that students of Taihoku higher school continued to observe their ideals and tradition throughout the war-time period. These important cases will contribute to the study of Japanese-language Taiwanese literature and shed new light on the history of education and war-time student culture in colonial Taiwan.