리얼리즘의 유토피아: 가와미츠 신이치의 「류큐공화사회 헌법C사(시)안」 읽기

An Okinawan poet, ‘Kawamichi Shinichi’s, ‘The Unofficial Constitution of the Republic of the Ryukyuan Society’(1981) is full of Utopian imagination, and also includes awareness of reality, and historical contents. Kawamichi's Constitution is based on the awareness of national self-determination in Okinawan society grown up through a series of historical events such as “the annexation of Ruykyus” in 1879, the trusteeship of United States Civil Administraion of the Ryukyu Islands in 1953, and the reversion of trustee power with full legislative, administrative, and judicial authority to Japan in 1972. Moreover, the Constitution provides alternative sources of thought, and seeks for self-reliance, different from the prevalent segregationism over national liberty. It is also against any form of violence, and denies the state. Finally, it proposes “The Republic of the Ryukyuan Society” as a counterpart to violent domination and voluntary subordination under any cause. An Okinawan thinker, Okamoto Keitoku's 『Thought of a Horizontal Axis: Sense of Okinawan Community』(1971) is a text well corresponding to Kawamichi's 「The Constitution」. Okamoto oversets both conception of the state and the anti-state, denies intelligent elitism over people, and finally approaches the logic of people's lives through conception of “community physiology”. Once reading it along with the Okamoto's book, it Kawamichi's 「The Constitution」provides an answer over a question, what Okinawa is, on which Okamoto endeavors. In consequence, both Kawamichi and Okamoto do not place Okinawa at the place of a victim, and provide Okinawan thought as the alternative way of thinking self-reliance.