Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions. Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty - James B. Palais
NOTES TO CHAPTER 2 1029
- Han Y5ng'u. building on a suggestion proposed by Sudo Yoshiyuki, was the first
scholar to propose that contrary to the view of Fukaya Toshitetsu that sajrln was trans-
ferred south to increase the supply of land for more kl1'ajril1 prebendal grants, the real
reason was to alleviate the suffering of the peasants in Ky6nggi Province, reduce the losses
from wrecked grain transport ships bringing tax grains to the capita. and divert land in
Kyonggi Province to military expenses. Han Yong'u, "Taejong, Sejongjo lii taesajon
sieh'aek: Sajon lii hasamdo igup munje rill ehungsim uro" [The policy of Kings T'ae-
jong and Sejong toward sajon: The problem of the transfer of sajon to the lower three
provinces], Hanguksa yon'gu 3 (March 1969): 39~88, esp. pp. 66~70; Yi Kyongsik.
Chosifn chon 'gi t'oji chedo yon 'gu: T()ji pungiipche wa nongmin chibae [A study of the
land system in the early Choson dynasty: Land distribution and the control of the peas-
antry) (Seoul: Ilchogak, 1986), pp. I92~2 I I. See also Ch'on Kwan'u, "Han'guk ('oji ehe-
dosa, ha" [The Korean land system, parI 2], in Han 'guk munhwasa taegye" [A grand
outline of Korean cultural history) (Seoul: Koryo taehakkyo minjok munhwa yon'guso,
1965), p. 1449; Sud0 Yoshiyuki, "Koraieho yori Chosen shoki ni ilaru densei no kaikaku"
[Land Reform between the Koryo and Choson dynasties J, Tliagakll 3 (940): I I 5~9I.
- Yi Kyongsik, Ch(mln chiill 'gi {'oji chedo yon 'gu, pp, 2 I I ~ 15. In Han YCmg'u's view,
the transfer of slIjrln prebends south from 1417 to 1431 was more revolutionary than the
burning of the sajon registers in 1390. Han Yong'u, "Taejong, Sejongjo ('Ii taesajon
sich'aek," pp. 50, 53, 86.
- Yi Kyongsik, Choson ChOll 'gi t'oji chedo yiin 'gu, pp. 2 I2~40; Han Yong'u, "Tae-
jong, Sejongjo ui taesajon sich'aek," pp. 77~79, 83~84.
- Yi Kyongsik, Choson chOn 'gi ('oji chedo yiin 'gu, p. 232.
- Even in King Sejong's reign prior to the adoption of the kongbOp in 1444, only o. I~O.2
percent of the land was upper grade, and only I~2 percent was middle grade; all the rest
was low grade. Ch'on Kwan'u, "Han'guk t'oji ehedosa, ha" (part 2), in Hwz'guk l11unhwasa
daegye," pp. I 49I~93, 151 I -13; Han Yong'u, "Taejong, Sejongjo ui taesajon sich'aek,"
pp. 80, n. I 26, 84.
- Yi Ky6ngsik, ChOS(11l chiin'gi t'oji chedo yiill'gu, pp. 24I~43.
- Ibid .. pr· 24R~50.
- Ibid., pp. 260~62, 265.
I I. Ibid., pp. 265~76.
- Ibid.
I3. Ibid., pp. 272~79.
- For the early Koryo dynasty, see James B. Paiais, "Land Tenure in Korea: Tenth
to Twelfth Centuries," Journal of Korean Studies 4 (I 982~83): 73~206. For the Choson
dynasty, see Pak Pyongho, Hall 'guk popchesa ('i1ksu yon'gu: Yijo sidae i1i pudongsan
maemae kilp tambohiip [Special studies on the history of the Korean legal system: Sale
and guarantee of immovable property) (Seoul, 1960); idem, "Han'guk kunse ui toji
soyukwon c kwan han yon'gu" [A study of landownership rights in recent Korean his-
tory], Seoul taehakkyo prlphak 8, no. I (I 966):63~93; R, no. 2 ( I 966 ):78~ 1°4; 9, no. I
(1967): I 57~85·
- Yi Kyongsik, "Simnyuk segi ehijueh'ung lii tonghyang [Trends in the landlord stra-
tum in the sixteenth century), Yiiksa kyoyuk 19 (April, I976):I48~50.
