우탁의 지부상소 연구

Abstract

In this paper, Yeokdong U Tak’s Jibusangso(持斧上疏) was examined. As you know, Toegye Lee Hwang thought highly of U Tak’s having dissseminated I-Ching widely into Korea and established Yeokdong Seowon. U Tak is also widely known as a person who reproved King Chunseong for his unethical acts while wearing white clothes and carrying an ax when he was a Gamchal Gyujeong(inspection officer) of Goryeojo. As the introduction to U Tak’s Jibusangso, his righteous acts(義行) were recorded not only in 『Goryeosayeoljeon』 but also in Kwon Geun(權近)’s 『Donghyeonsaryak(東賢史略)』, Yu Hui-chun(柳希春)’s 『Sokmonggu(續蒙求)』, Sim Gwang-se(沈光世)’s 『Haedongakbu(海東樂府)』 and others in order to honor his spirit forever. And good writers with extraordinary historical consciousness introduced them in various ways through miscellaneous writings and etc. in individual collections of literary works. In particular, in the latter half of Joseon, it developed unusually in diverse ways from the existing narrative style. Seongho(星湖) Lee Yik(李瀷) made U Tak’s Jibusangso stand out in the form of Akbu poetry(樂府詩), and his disciple, unknown(無名子) Yun Gi(尹愭), through the poem of Chileonjeolgu(七言絶句), and Jeoam(著菴) Yu Han-jun(兪漢雋) specially wrote abou Jibusangso in the form of full-length Seosabu(敍事賦). It was because the author intended to give publicity to U Tak’s integrity and honest advice who carried out Jibusangso. The historical meanings of U Tak’s Jibusangso were found by Jungbong Jo Heon in the middle period of Joseon, and re-investigated by Myeonam Choi Ik-yeon in the late period of Joseon. When Jo Heon appealed to make the envoy from Japan cut before the outbreak of Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592, he said that it was from U Tak’s Jibusangso. And when a commercial treaty with Japan was signed in 1876, Choi Ik-hyeon emphasized the injustice of the treaty, and in the process, he also mentioned that he came to appeal based on U Tak’s and Jo Heon’s Jibusangso. So these three figures’ appeals are now called the three Jibusangsos of Korea.