백제 도왜계(渡倭系) 여성의 생애 －百濟王明信･貴命･慶命을 중심으로－

Abstract

In the ancient Japanese legal system, only women official ranks of the imperial family members, the female officials, and the emperor's consorts were recorded. They have fewer records than their male counterparts, and even those records are often fragmentary. In this situation, there are fewer records of women from immigrant clans, and their lives are not easy to estimate. Therefore, this study summarizes and reviews the records of the women of the Kudaranokonikishiuji, one of the Baekje Immigrants Clans, and focuses on the lives of three women(Myoshin･Kimoy･Kyomyo) whose lives had been recorded prominently. First of all, Myoshin became Shoji, the highest rank of handmaid. Kimoy became the emperor's consort, a nyogo, gave births to his children. Kyomyo gave birth to a child as the emperor's consort, and later became Shoji. It can be concluded that women of the same clan, Myoshin, Kimoy and Kyomyo were present at court in the late Nara and early Heian periods, but their social positions were different each other. It is difficult to generalize about the lives of migrant women in ancient Japan. Therefore, the trend of the women of the Kudaranokonikishiuji is an important source to confirm that immigrant women had a certain status and position in ancient Japanese society.