고문서로 본 조선후기 양반가의 가사(家舍) 경영과 주거(住居) -해남윤씨 윤선도 가계의 사례를 통하여

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the house management and dwelling patterns of yangban families with a focus on Yun Seon‒do’s family from Haenam and the patterns of their house management according to the occupancy ratio and dwelling forms of yangban class in Joseon. The Yun family of Haenam owned a house and lot in many places including several Gyeongjaes(京齋) until the 17th century. The houses and lots were evenly passed down to sons and daughters, which tradition gradually gave way to a new one of the oldest son inheriting them after the 17th century. The timing corresponds to the point when the central stage of Yun family’s activities moved from Seoul to Haenam. The house management or dwelling patterns of the family exhibited the following characteristics in that atmosphere: first, there was a strong tendency of father and son moving to the capital or the country together and living together. The marks of fathers matched those of sons over generations as Yun Seon‒do was born in Seoul, following his father, and his son Yun In‒mi moved to the country, following him. Secondly, there were differences in the methods and sizes of house management between Seoul and Haenam. The lot in Yeonji‒dong, Seoul that Yun In‒mi inherited from his father Yun Seon‒do included as many as 500 Kans(間). Unlike it, the house that was purchased at a cheap price in Haenam included only a few Kans. The house of head family in Yeon‒dong recorded in the family register in the early 1900s was not big, either. There were many cases of even inheritance of houses and lots in the Records of Property Inheritance until the 17th century. It is a question how they procured that many houses. Although there were many statements about house or lot purchases in the inheritance documents, only a couple of house purchase documents remain. Even after lots were inherited, they did not build houses much except for small ones including vacation homes and Chodangs(草堂) according to the rare records. The study demonstrated that they did pluralistic house management but failed to figure out how they procured houses, which is left to follow‒up study.