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The Writer’s Consciousness of Gijae Shin Gwang Han Expressed in 『Hwanghwajip(皇華集)』- Focusing on the Aspect in Exchanging Poems with Ming Envoy Jang Seung Heon
Journal of Korean Classical Chinese Literature
Abbr :
한문고전연구
2011, 23(1), pp.37-68
DOI : 10.18213/jkccl.2011.23.1.002
Publisher : The Classical Chinese Literature Association of Korea
Research Area : Korean Language and Literature
2011, 23(1), pp.37-68
DOI : 10.18213/jkccl.2011.23.1.002
Publisher : The Classical Chinese Literature Association of Korea
Research Area : Korean Language and Literature
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Gijae Shin Gwang Han (1484-1555) is a figure who played a key role in the literary circles of the day while being in the government service for around 30 years. As a method to identify the development of his literary world in his life and his consciousness presented in his poems, this study looked into poems he exchanged with a Ming envoy while carrying out the duty of greeting him. Those poems, of course, account for a very small part of his works. However, the record of greeting a Ming envoy was an important incident in his life and it is significant as it demonstrated the recognition of his poems by his contemporaries. This study was conducted based on poems contained in Hwanghwajip, which includes both Ming Envoy Jang Seung Heon’s poems and Shin Gwang Han’s responding poems, looking at the aspect of poem exchange between Shin Gwang Han and Jang Seung Heon and the poet’s consciousness reflected in the poems exchanged with Jang Seung Heon. Shin Gwang Han was involved in three times of envoy greetings directly or indirectly and this study focused on the envoy greeting carried out in 1545 (the 1st year of King Sejong’s reign). Though pieces of work in Hwanghwajip have the characteristics of specialized literature, the poems can serve as meaningful research materials for getting a glimpse of Shin Gwang Han’s inner world during the period he was in the government service because they display both his bureaucratic attitude to save his country’s face and poetic self-esteem to fully keep the pride as a poet. In addition, another outcomes of this study would be to verify the background of his literary works in more details and to reveal the viewpoints of two literary men who lived in the same era but different countries by analyzing poems written by Jang Seung Heon of Ming dynasty and Shin Gwang Han of Josun.
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