금석문 소재 여항인의 묘도문자 제작

Abstract

This paper identifies new facts about middleclass people in the late Joseon Dynasty through data on middleclass people contained in the Geumseokjipcheop, and examines the tombstones of middleclass people in relation to the epigraph data. In the absence of much literature on the family records of middleclass people, it is an urgent task to investigate and organize the data of the epigraph of middleclass people in various ways. In particular, epigraphs related to middleclass people are often neglected without proper management or disappeared in urban development and maintenance projects. The Geumseok Collection, housed in the Kyoto University Library in Japan, is the largest epigraph collection of the Joseon Dynasty. However, only one epigraph collection of middleclass people is currently housed in Gyujanggak. In this paper, I examine the Gyujanggak collection, epigraph data on middleclass people, and actual epigraph to explore more information about middleclass people in the late Joseon Dynasty. First, I examined the data on middle class in the Gyujanggak Collection (173 volume) and the Kyoto University Library Collection (200 volume). In total, there are 16 middleclass peoples listed, and they provide valuable information about middle class such as Kim Geukryeong and Pi Ikhwan. It is noteworthy that Kim Uisin and An Myeongyeol were calligraphers who wrote on the tombstones of middle class. The paper then analyzes the tombstone inscriptions of the Cheonnyeong Hyeon families and Woobong Kim families, which produced many late Joseon court officers, and the tombstone inscriptions at the Imalsan and Chosan boundaries of graves. These data do not only tell new facts about middleclass people, but also allow us to estimate the process of formation, development, and change of a specific family. Among the women in port, there were figures who showed outstanding talent in calligraphy, education, and painting, and through these epigraph materials, the handwriting of calligraphers from port was newly discovered.