臺灣文學史上的『民俗臺灣』

Folklore Taiwan in the History of Taiwanese Literature

刊行於臺灣日據時期之『民俗臺灣』，是日本編輯群以及多數臺灣人、日本人的共同創作之非純文學的同人雜誌。雜誌內容或許不及其他純文學雜誌一般嚴謹、緻密，但是多數業餘投稿者所建構成的臺灣及其過邊地區之社會、文化、言語、藝術、信仰、俗信等相關記載，是屬於報導文學之一環。因此，『民俗臺灣』是綜合雜誌，民俗雜誌，而且也是文學雜誌，更可以說『民俗臺灣』是描寫臺灣及其週邊常民社會的常民文學。

Folklore Taiwan, was a collegial journal published during the Japanese colonial period. Created jointly by a Japanese editing staff and numerous Taiwanese and Japanese people, the magazine covered a wide range of issues related to society, culture, language, art, popular belief; and custom, all prevalent in Taiwan as well as in the vicinity of it at that time. Comprising articles not entirely scholarly or literary in content, while mostly contributed by amateur writers, the publication was classified as literary reportage, a non­fiction form of literature﹒Thus, Folklore Taiwan can be regarded as a comprehensive magazine, a folklore magazine or a literary magazine in a broad sense. To be exact, Folklore Taiwan was civilian-oriented literature which not only depicted Taiwan’s society but told stories about the common people of it during Imperial Japanese occupation.