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A Study on the Images in Oryunhaengsildo(五倫行實圖)

  • The Research of the Korean Classic
  • 2009, (20), pp.141-168
  • Publisher : The Research Of The Korean Classic
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > Korean classic prose

Cho, Hyun Woo 1

1인천대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this study, I focussed on the transition and its meaning of the images in Oryunhaengsildo(五倫行實圖) which was the last one of many books for the enlightenment in Chosun Dynasty. The most remarkable transition of the images in Oryunhaengsildo was the reduction of scnens those were represented the story of 'Samgang'(三綱; the loyalty, filial piety and chastity). According to the reduction of scenes the images in Oryunhaengsildo had been turned into illustrations by which the narrative and images were associated with each other immediately. But this transition of images also had brought about the inclination that the images had been subordinated to the narratives. The most interesting thing, I think, of these serial changes was that the relative relationships were repeated in two different levels, between the narratives and the images in Oryunhaengsildo and between Oryunhaengsildo itself and Sohak(小學) as the relationship of root and branch(本末). As the appearance of Sohak, this Book promptly had took the place of the main book for the enlightenment, Oryunhaengsildo had been downgraded as the sub-text. Consequently the transition of the images in Oryunhaeng -sildo had been a barometer that showed the changes of philosophical thoughts and cultural trend in late Chosun Dynasty.

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