신라·백제목간의 비교 연구

Abstract

Ancient wooden tablets of Korea have consistently been reported since the excavation of wooden tablets at Seongsan Mountain Fortress. Today they hold an important position as a material in ancient history of Korea. There are 561 Silla wooden tablets and 214 Baekje wooden tablets excavated so far, but no research has compared them based on the characteristics of Korean wooden tablets. This study thus set out to compare and examine Silla and Baekje wooden tablets for their formal characteristics and traced the development patterns of ancient wooden tablet culture. In Silla, they made broad use of multi-sided and circumferential wooden tablets across many areas including documents by the 7th century. In Baekje, the uses of such wooden tablets were restricted to practice books in the 7th century with the rectangular plate type being standardized and refined. There were also differences in the location and number of grooves in groove-type wooden tablets between Silla and Baekje. Those findings indicate that there are certain differences in wooden tablet culture between Silla and Baekje, where the wooden tablet culture seems to have developed in close relation to the arrangement and development of national institutions and the development of character culture. Considering the progress of wooden tablet culture, Baekje was ahead of Silla in the phase of the 7th century. It is estimated that Baekje's wooden tables had direct influences on the wooden table culture of ancient Japan since the 7th century.