18세기 중반 定例類에 나타난 王室供上의 범위와 성격

Abstract

Gongsang(供上) is a kind of tributes to royal family, which was offered by bureau of central government charged with supporting royal family[供上衙門] in Joseon Dynasty. After reformation of tributary system so called Daedong’pub[大同法], procurement method of Gongsang was changed from the way bureaus themselves arrange the goods to the way Gong’in(貢人),which wais tributes contractor, procure goods for tributes to the bureaus. And financial bureaus of central government such as Hojo(戶曹), Sunhyechung(宣惠廳) became to charge with paying Gong’in the prices[貢價] for Gongsang. Takiji-jeong’rye(度支定例) is the most appropriate source of understanding changed Gongsang system in late Joseon period. During the middle period of king Youngjo’s reign, the series of books named Takiji-jeong’rye were published to cut unnecessary spending of the government finance. In particular, Gakjeon-gakgung’rye(各殿各宮例) was issued as the first part of Takiji-jeongr’ye to retrench the expenditure for supporting royal family. This study uncovered the range of royal family which was offered Gongsang on regular basis and its feature in mid-18th century through analyzing Takji-jeong’rye Gakjeon-gakgung’rye and Sunhyechung-jeong’rye (宣惠廳定例). Whereupon the royal family offered goods of Gongsang was limited to king in his own age and his direct descendants[three generations],Queen mother[慈殿], Insu-gung(仁壽宮) which was the palace of preceding kings’ concubines and the nanny for the king named Bongbo-bu’in(奉保夫人). Without the crown prince and his wife, other royal princes and princesses had to live out of royal palace after their own marriages. Once they leaved the palace, they couldn’t be offered Gongsang anymore. But Servant ladies,even though they also lived out following royal family, were still provided with daily eatings and clothing from the public finance. Actually a great deal of goods for court ladies was falled within Gongsang. Considering these points, Gongsang is characterized as not only the routinized gift for royal family but also the cost of maintenance of royal family, which was financed by Hojo or Sunhyechung.