여헌학파의 동향과 만회당 장경우의 위상

Abstract

This study analyzes the roles and status of Manhoedang Jang Gyeong-wu amid the transmission of the Yeoheon School within the family, as well as the diffusion of the Yeoheon School to the Seonsan and Indong areas. Manhoedang Jang Gyeong-wu (1581~1656) served Yeoheon Jang Hyeon-gwang, along with his father Jang Nae-beom (1563~1640) and his son Jang Hak (1614~1669) filially. Jang Gyeong-wu looked up to his teacher Jang Hyeon-gwang, whom he served after the death of Hanggang Jeong Gu. Jang led the posthumous conferment of Jang Hyeon-gwang when the latter passed away in 1637. Along with his alumnus, he oversaw the enshrinement of the mortuary tablet for Jang Hyeon-gwang in the Osan Seowon (Confucian Academy) in 1639. He also edited the collection of his teacher’s literary works. Along with Kim Eung-jo, Sin Yeol-do, and Jang Eung-il, Jang in 1654 established a building for the Seowon at the Bujiam site that had served as their learning place, and started to enshrine the tablet for Jang Hyeon-gwang that had originally been in Osan there in 1655. Along with Jang Eung-il, who was Jang Hyeon-gwang’s adopted son, Jang Gyeong-wu played the leading role in implementing a sacrificial rite at the Seowon and publishing Jang Hyeon-gwang’s literary works. As a result of these efforts, Jang Yeong identified Jang Gyeong-wu as a person worthy of the highest status in his compilation of <Sipcheolrok>, a record originally attributed to Jang Hyeon-gwang’s disciples. Jeong Gu’s alumni also identified Jang Gyeong-wu as the best disciple of Jang Hyeon-gwang in their literary book. Jang Gyeong-wu was also enshrined by the Indong Jang clan at the Okgyesa Shrine where sacrificial rites for prominent descendants were implemented. Discussions to enshrine Jang Gyeong-wu in the Dongnak Seowon in which Jang Hyeon-gwang was enshrined as the main figure began to emerge at the end of King Cheoljong’s reign. Jang Gyeong-wu was praised at the time in government documentation as the rightful disciple of their school of learning. Considering the facts that he devoted himself to assisting his teacher and establishing their school of learning as an independent school, Jang Gyeong-wu was hailed as the best candidate for separate enshrinement in the sacrificial rite conducted at the shrine where Jang Hyeon-gwang was enshrined. The enshrinement of Jang Gyeong-wu in the Yeongdang Shrine occurred in 1933, coming off the restoration of the Dongnak Seowon in 1932. The young scholars of the region started to be influenced by the Toegye School of Learning after the death of Jang Hyeon-gwang in 1637. Amid the crisis of his school of learning, Jang Gyeong-wu inherited the Yeoheon School of Learning and led the posthumous conferment of Jang Hyeon-gwang.