『광개토왕릉비』에 나타난 광개토왕의 왕릉관리

Abstract

I studied the article related to tomb keepers’연호 of the tombstone of King Kwanggaeto’s royal tomb, and examined records applicable to former times of King Kwanggaeto. King Kwanggaeto grasped that there were problems in maintaining his predecessors’royal tombs, and was concerned about that the problems would influence on his own tomb in the future. He pointed out the problems in maintaining his predecessors’royal tombs one by one, and put into practice to break through them. His measures can be summarized into three points. First, he faced up to reality that there were some mistakes in keeping tombs, and so keeping tombs did not go well. He understood that this was because the tomb keepers were confused because there were no tombstones at his predecessors’royal tombs. Accordingly, King Kwanggaeto kept from causing mistakes by erecting tombstones at all ancestral kings royal tombs and recording the tomb keepers. Second, he grasped that keeping tombs did not go well because selling and buying and monopoly of tomb keepers were prevalent. He understood that this was because reserve tomb keepers who were transferred temporarily for the position of keeping tombs became the object for selling and buying and monopoly, and so the position of keeping tombs stumbled. King Kwanggaeto, hence, enacted a law to prohibit monopoly of tomb keepers and put it into practice. King Kwanggaeto, however, was not satisfied with such measures. Finally, King Kwanggaeto chose to reorganize tomb keepers completely. He asked his son(King Jangsoo) to give Han-ye(韓穢) who he himself went to war and captured charge of taking care of his tomb.