Images of Laborers in Natsume Soseki's Everywhere of Manchu and Korea

The connection between Japan and Manchu can be traced back to Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905. After the war Japan hold the lease of the Liaotung Peninsula and gained the rights to South Manchurian Railway. On the same time, with the development of the transportation industry of Japan, the overseas travel industry flourished, and the number of Japanese intellectuals to manchuria increased. The literary giant Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) is the representative writer who really set foot on the manchurian land and carefully observed and wrote about the manchurian people under this trend. In "Everywhere of Manchu and Korea", a travel note he wrote after his trip to manchuria in the autumn of 1909, he carefully observed and described Chinese laborers (coolies). But he kept a psychological distance at all times, which was consistent with the schema of mind like Imaginative Geographies in Said's Orientalism.本論文は、日本文藝学会第56回大会（2019年6月29日－7月1日、於熊本・九州ルーテル学院大学）において口頭発表した内容をもとにしたものである