일제 강점기 한국관습조사자료의 소장 현황과 분류․記述 －국사편찬위원회와 수원박물관 자료를 중심으로－

Abstract

The Japanese Empire had conducted a wide ranged custom investigation on Korea from 1906 to 1938. Itou Hirobumi(伊藤博文) had started investigating the custom in order to legislate the real estate law as well as investigating the custom and the system of Korea with the objective of legislating the civil law in 1908. After the annexation of Korea, the Japanese Government-General of Korea has produced many records while conducting the custom investigation and its affiliated projects. Despite the fact that these records are the documents to find out about the customs, folklore, laws and lives of modern Korean people, the basic investigation on how much of these materials have been produced or which agency the collections are located. In this study, the status of custom investigation materials collection at the Suwon Museum of History(수원박물관) and National Institute of Korean History(국사편찬위원회) was compared to be introduced. Despite the fact that all these materials are produced in the process of custom investigation, the classification or organization methods are different depending on the collection agency and the introduction on the characteristic of materials is also unable to be performed. In this paper, the list description will be presented as it introduces the materials of ‘custom investigation materials’ for raising the utilization of researchers while newly proposing the classification and organization system of each materials.