朝鮮時代 誌石의 撰者에 대한 一考察

Abstract

Memorial stone is a funeral equipment to be positioned last in the funeral process which is referred to tablet type stone or plate that has personal information on the buried or the recording of the tomb. The recording on the memorial stone include the position, family lineage and the marital status of the buried and many more detailed information on the buried from birth and death to the burial thus the memorial stone is a personal recod and history. The memorial stone appears as early as Three Kingdom Era in Korea but the memorial stone culture flourishes in Chosun dynasty when people involved in majority parts in production. The subjects of analysis in the research are 298 memorial stones from Chosun dynasty which the compilers are known and own by National Museum of Korea, private museums, university museums, clans and by persons. Generally the process of memorial stone can be divided in to two ways. One is to prepare the basic writing about the behavior in lifetime of the buried and ask a 3rd person for production and the other is to complete the entire process by family or descendants from the beginning to the end. As a result of the analysis on compiler based on th contents of the memorial stone, it was confirmed that unlike Koryo dynasty, Chosun dynasty had many types of people as compiler of the memorial stone such as a king, a husband, a son in law, the own-self, a friend, siblings, a writer, sons and descendants. Also discovered were new facts related to the compiler of the memorial stone that could not be identified in the literary works until now moreover, confirmed were these facts become essential basis to understand overall trends on the compilers of the memorial stone in the Chosun dynasty.