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A study on the flat formation the coaster town castle in the South Coast

il Gab Lee 1

1재단법인 동양문물연구원

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The flat formation found in the coastal town walls were succeeded and developed afterward and we can see them in Masan hoewonhyeon castle, which was governing castle before Joseon Dynasty period, Busan Danggamdong castle, Ulju whasanri castle, and Dongrae goeup castle. The flat formation in coastal town walls are divided into four types largely as square, round, ark, and trapezoid shape. As for location, the square shape was built on flat castle, the trapezoid and the round shapes were built on flat with mountain castle, and most of ark shape also was built on flat with mountain castle. In the case of coastal town walls in south coast, the town walls built with flat formation of trapezoid are few and the girth of the walls also smaller than that of land town and the others. Rather most of them had the ark shape. In the case of the land town walls and others, they were added or reconstructed to the precedent castle walls on the way of change working from soil walls to stone ones. However in the case of coastal town walls, most of them were built newly after opening Joseon Dynasty and then they were considered with the idea of establishing Confucian social status system and sovereign power of central government over local province and rank order of administrative unit accordant to reorganizing military defense system as well as their topographic condition. And also the reason that they had the new type of flat formation was to cover their weak energy said by the theory of divination based on topography. In the case of south coastal town walls, the trapezoid shape was the earliest flat formation and also the ark shape was made in the same period but their formation became changed by combining both shapes as it went to the age of latter part of earlier Joseon Dynasty. And also in the case of the high governmental status' unit in South coastal town, their walls' flat formation had the ark shape. Therefore the ark shape can be said the popular pattern in coastal town walls in the earlier Joseon Dynasty. Another thing to be considered in the flat formation of coastal town walls is that it could be changed according to the number of man who could enter together and its capacity to accommodation. Especially among the coastal town walls, the flat formation built in Gun and Hyeon with over 30,000 houses had the ark shape in majority. Therefore as shown in the comparing flat formations, the coastal town walls had a single construction pattern comparing to the others in the same period and it seemed from its topographic condition. The area was the strategic base in forefront place against Japan so owing to its military function, the walls construction was proceeded with consistency and stern control by the nation. And there was a ritual rule to construct town castle walls by selecting land shapes suitable to the rule among arranged ones rather than determining the flat formation according to the topographic condition.

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