曹洞宗的战争——以一名日本从军僧人的战场慰问记为中心

War of Caodong Sect--Taking a military monk＇s wartime diary as center

日军侵华期间，日本的佛教界派出从军僧人前往中国战场从事慰问军队、超度死者等工作，出于其可以自由往来于战场的独特身份，从军僧人留下了战场记录成为了现今研究历史的重要资料。本文记叙了曹洞宗教派的一名从军僧人从上海前往即将沦陷的南京途中的所见所闻，描述了当时中国战场上的紧张局势。虽然其抵达南京之后没有留下直接目睹南京大屠杀的记录，但是从只言片语的担忧之词中，透出了一丝对南京城命运的不安。

During Japanese invading China, Japan Buddhist Circles ever dispatched military monks to China battlefield. Because of their special identity, they could ply from one battlefield to another one freely, so their records on war became the important materials to research the history. This paper shows a Caodong sect military monk＇ s sees and hears during his travelling form Shanghai to Nanjing. Although he did not experience the Nanjing massacre when he arrived, he still expressed his worry about the fate of Nanjing with a few isolated words and phrases.