누정기에 나타난 하동 누정의 공간 인식

Abstract

This study presents a journey to the characteristics of towers and pavilions in the Mt. Jiri region, aiming to analyze the records of Hadong's towers and pavilions and figure out officers' spatial perceptions reflected in them. In Hadong, towers and pavilions were mostly built in the 19th and 20th century. Writers of records of towers and pavilions were also concentrated in the period and the Gangwoo society. Geographically speaking, most of those writers came from Gangwoo including Hadong, Danseong, Jinju and Hapcheon. A small number of renowned local figures created a good number of Gimuns, which explains why the number of writers of records of towers and pavilions is extremely smaller than that of those records. The writers' spatial perceptions reflected in their records of towers and pavilions can be categorized into "space for sharing of consciousness," "space for moral training," and "space for the implementation of law of nature." Anshikjeong and Jihajae emphasized the locality of a place where a tower or pavilion was standing. Akyakjeong was considered as a place to share the lives and spirits of ancient local sages. It was also interpreted as a space to promote officer consciousness among officers through moral training in late Joseon, which is often found in the Gimuns of Uironryu descriptions that interpret the meanings of the titles of towers and pavilions. Finally, there were some cases that utilized surrounding landscapes and titles of towers and pavilions in complex ways such as Hahanjeong and Hamwoljeong. They were expressed as a space to pray for the natural movement of law of nature in the middle of Sung-Confucian world view. Those spatial perceptions reflected in towers and pavilions indicate that towers and pavilions were interpreted as a rather conceptual and ideological space instead of practical space for living.