紀要論文

紀要論文

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人文学林. 2025, 2, p. 117-135

日本語

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2025-03-31

This paper examines French Indochina （now Vietnam）, particularly Saigon （now Ho Chi Minh City）, as a unique “brackish water port” that epitomized the cultural intermingling of East and West. Serving as a significant contact zone for modern Japanese visitors, the city — renowned as the “Paris of the East” — showcased a captivating blend of Asian and European influences, characterized by its Haussmann-inspired boulevards, which contrasted starkly with the British colonial settlements in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore. The vibrant red-light district of prewar Saigon primarily attracted male Japanese travellers, who perceived it as an opportunity to experience colonial power dynamics in the manner of their European counterparts. However, Japanese prostitutes in Indochina were marginalized, forced to leave Japan during modernization, and branded a “national disgrace” as Japan expanded its imperial ambitions in Southeast Asia. Their poignant narratives, possibly inspired by the well-known story of La Dame aux Camélias, a story about the rarely visited grave of a courtesan, quickly faded into oblivion, overshadowed by male travellersʼ glorification of seventeenth-century Japanese graves as symbols of colonial pioneering. This exploration of the Japanese occupation of French Indochina in the 1940s highlights a propagandistic endeavour to reconstruct hybrid spaces and narratives centred on Japanese male identity.

10.18910/100782

100782

汽水域としての仏領インドシナ : 近代日本の短期滞在者による「同胞」の発見とその表象

橋本, 順光

大阪大学大学院人文学研究科

日本語

2025-03-31

人文学林

2

117

135

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/100782

10.18910/100782

https://doi.org/10.18910/100782