조선시대 磁器製 器物形 誌石 연구

Abstract

Epitaph tablet is one of funeral equipments that is buried in the last stage of funeral arrangements. Many information including buried person birth and death and burial, which can be said to be the history of a person. Human definitely dies once born. There are people who want to leave a trace, after death. One of the means to leave a trace is Epitaph tablet. Epitaph tablet appears since the Three Kingdoms period, however it was organized and generalized since Goryeo period. However, the classes that left Epitaph tablet in Goryeo period were mostly governmental officers or noble men. In Joseon dynasty, as Confucian bier funeral system was generalized and nationally great quantity of Porcelain Epitaph tablet appeared. The 18th century was the crest of Epitaph tablet in respect of material, shape, and quantity. Particularly, as most of general people participated in manufacture of Epitaph tablet, Epitaph tablet culture became prosperous in earnest. Since this period, Utensils type Epitaph tablet appeared in a similar shape to living vessels in a large quantity mainly with general people, which showed various shapes, e.g. wipae type, cylindar, bowl type, dish type, yeonsang type, polygonal bottle type, etc. Particularly, in many cases they were hurriedly written with ink stick or engraved in bowl or dish, etc. This way, Utensils type appeared in unique and various types, in respect of content composition, in many cases they were briefly recorded in shoddy letter form. This phenomenon is considered to have a close relation with the establishment of Epitaph tablet as the general phenomenon along with recommendation for active use of Porcelain Epitaph tablet at the national level. Also, the researcher considers that the general people were hurriedly buried by urgently engraving letters in living vessels, etc., since their funeral period was shorter than governmental officers and funeral style was simple, accordingly, they could not be prepared with proper shape of typical Epitaph tablet type.