제사상속·호주상속 담론(1910~1923)에 대한 비판적 고찰

Abstract

In the year of 1926 a book, which contained 834 items of Choson traditional customary rule on the family relation and family inheritance, was published. In the year of 1935, sum total items of Choson traditional customary rule on the family relation and family inheritance became 1,075 items. This paper seeks to critically analyze one of the main conceptual categorization and classification of premodern “choson customary law”, which was basically documented by Japanese colonial authorities during 4 decades(1908-1945). The paper is divided into six distinct sections. The task of this paper is to select the discourse of family worship and the discourse of succession of family headship to demonstrate its inadequacy and manipulative aspects in detail, and to seek future research tasks (Ⅰ). Oda Miki Jiro (hereafter ‘Oda’), who wrote the report of Choson custom survey of the year of 1910, borrowed three kinds of inheritance categories of Hozumi Nobusige (hereafter ‘Nobusige’) and adapted those three categories to Choson popular usages. Few people today believe in Nobusige's argument. It is foolish to accept the report borrowing Nobu Shige’s argument and the argument of the 1923 resolution without scientific basis (III). Next, there are many arguments that are difficult to comprehend in the argument about the succession of family headship (IV). Arguments in the 1923 resolution and report on the succession of family headship have baseless assumptions, weak arguments, or arguments that are not consistent with the facts (V). How seriously and carefully the report of Choson custom survey of the year of 1910 was written? This issue is a future research topic (VI) that I would like to explore. At first, I had the impression that there is little possibility that each item has been consciously or unconsciously manipulated. However, I have strong doubts about it.