私淑齋 姜希孟의 함양에서의 시작 활동

Abstract

This study examines the poery writing of Kang Hŭimaeng when he was in Hamyang. Among the seventeen facsimiles making up his literary works, the kapjincha (甲辰字) version of Sasukchaechip (私淑 齋) contains his poetry from this period. When bereaved of his foster father, Kang Suntŏk, he retired from government at the age of fifty-one and stayed in Hamyang for about two or three years. Although it was for a short time, it was the start of vigorous activity for him which can be attributed to two reasons. The first was his friendship with Kim Chong-chik, who was the newly appointed magistrate of Hamyang-gun at the time. Kang often met and associated with his friends from youth while in Hamyang. Based on their shared commonality of being civil servants isolated from the capital, the range of their poetry exchanges expanded to include lifestyles in the area. These poems lasted through the Hamyang period and continued to be actively written. The second is that Hamyang’s natural scenery and the experiences of a quiet pastoral lifestyle were applied as poetic inspiration. Leaving the busy capital, growing vegetables, gathering medicinal herbs and studying farming, Kang used the livestock and plants he saw in his daily life as topics in his poetry and painting. For Kang, the pastoral scenery of Kyŏngki region while he was a government bureaucrat and the totally different dimension he experienced while solely farming was significant for creating a cultural space for creating poetry.