5~8세기 耽羅國의 대외교류와 진상·조공 품목

Abstract

This study examines the development of Tamra(耽羅) Kingdom’s foreign exchange in the 5th to 8th century and also its diplomatic gifts(進上品) delivered to neighboring countries through the exchange. In particular, this author points out the fact that research on Tamra Kingdom’s foreign exchange has tended to be approached from the perspective of Baekje(百濟), Silla(新羅), or Japanese history and attempts to investigate international situations around Jeju Island(濟州島) in the 5th to 8th century from the standpoint of Tamra Kingdom. First of all, Tamra Kingdom’s foreign negotiation was carried out to Baekje and Goguryeo(高句麗) in the 5th to 6th century, and the motive of such negotiation and process of its development have been found to be grounded on Tamra Kingdom’s independent judgment about the conditions and effort for foreign negotiation. Particularly with the chance of its first negotiation with Baekje in 476, Tamra Kingdom recognized the dramatically changing situations of the Korean Peninsula in the late 5th century, and around the end of the 5th century, it is supposed that it established not Baekje but Goguryeo as its main target of negotiation and offered ‘Okga(玉珂)’ as a diplomatic gift. Meanwhile, it is also found that with Baekje’s collapse in 660 as a starting point, Tamra performed multilateral negotiation with Silla, Japan, and Tang(唐) Dynasty to cope with the rapidly changing situations. Especially in the process of its negotiation with Japan, Tamra Kingdom used its national specialties such as Tamra-Stockfish(耽羅方 脯) and Tamra-Abalone(耽羅鰒), and supposedly, along with those, items like cowhide(牛皮), deer skin(鹿皮), or seaweed(海藻) should have been adopted not only as Tamra’s main products but diplomatic gifts for foreign negotiation at that time.