著者

松岡 秀明 Hideaki Matsuoka

出版者

国際コミュニケーション学会

雑誌

国際経営・文化研究 = Cross-cultural business and cultural studies : 国際コミュニケーション学会誌 (ISSN:13431412)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.21, no.1, pp.53-61, 2016-12

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This paper explores a best-seller book entitled Kojima no Haru or Spring in the Island published in 1938. The book, written by Ogawa Masako, a medical doctor who was working for a leprosarium named Nagashima Aiseien in Okayama prefecture, is a report of her trip to Kochi, Tokushima, and Okayama to give lectures on leprosy to a public audience and to persuade patients living in their homes to enter leprosarium. Sentimentalism amplified with Tanka scattered throughout in the book, Kojima no Haru made the readers to consider leprosy patients as miserable and pitiful people. This stereotypical image of patients spurred a paternalistic approach toward the patients thereafter.