담양 龍華寺 默潭遺物館의 왕실 시주 공예품 연구

Abstract

Mukdam Museum (默潭遺物館) at Yonghwasa Temple (龍華寺) in Damyang (潭陽) has more than 1,000 relics of the Buddhist Great Master Mukdam (默潭大師), including 150 artifacts. These craft works are the primary material that informs the Great Master Mukdam’s trace and high-quality royal artifacts that formed under the relationship between King Gojong (高宗)’s concubine Bohyeondang Jeong (寶賢堂 鄭氏) and Court lady Im (林尙宮). In addition, this is the important data that tells that the colonial situation had influence on Buddhist artifacts in the Japanese colonial era which coexisted with Korean Buddhism and Japanese Buddhism. Thus, I intend to discuss the scientific value of the craft works Mukdam Museum, generally considering the analysis of the Characters of King Gojong’s concubine Bohyeondang Jeong and Court lady Im, their royal votive offerings and the situation of Korean Buddhism that Japanese Buddhism encroached. As a result I found that “Your Highness Jeong” is King Gojong’s concubine Bohyeondang Jeong, her dates, the time taken title of nobility and the fact that the building called Bohyeondang was originally Yangsimdang (養 心堂) in Deoksugung Palace (德壽宮). Court lady Im was a courtesan of the same age as Bohyeondang Jeong. She was a mediator between Bohyeondang Jeong and Great Master Mukdam. Their offerings are a royal artifact with a high level of production, Buddhist flags, embroidery, ornaments on a Buddhist sedan chair and Kwan-yin tabernacle. Embroideries have Bohyeondang Jeong and Court lady Im’s Buddhist name-manhaengwha (萬行華), mandeokwha (萬德華)-and show traditional characteristics. On the other hand Kwan-yin tabernacle that court lady Im presented was made by the compromised techniques of the woodcraft of Korea and Japan. Thus Japanese Buddhism also affected Buddhist artifacts in the Japanese colonial era. Besides artifacts of Japanese style of Mukdam Museum are candlesticks with crane and tortoise shapes, hanging lanterns, a lid of incense burner with floral medallion pattern, Buddhist alar desks. Therefore artifacts in Mukdam Museum have a great significance in many ways - the relationship between Great Master Mukdam and the royal family, the influence of Japanese artifacts that reflected Buddhist trends in Japanese colonial era and so on.