NOTES TO CHAPTER 6 1053
I 6. The historian's remarks were a rebuttal of the proposal of the State Councilor, Nam
Ung'un, to follow the matrilineal rule and allow the offspring of women of good status
to inherit that status to increase the number of able-bodied males available for military
service. The historian was particularly incensed at Nam's suggestion that King Myongjong
should issue an edict without bothering to discuss it with his ministers. Myc'ingjong sil-
10k 12:2sa, Myongjong 6.9.kyech'uk (ISST), cited in Yi Sangbaek, "Ch'onja sumogo,"
p. q1.
q. KRS 8S:40b-4Ia.
- The Munhonbigo was originally compiled in 1770. A second edition was com-
piled in q82 but not published. A third edition was published in 1908 under the title
Chlingbo munhOnbigo. See KSDSJ 2:I47S. - KRS 8S:40b-4Ia. For the commentary ofYi Ki(?), see MHBG 162:8a. See also
Kameda, "Korai no nuhi," part I, p. 9S; Salem, "Slavery in Medieval Korea," p. 3S. - KRS 8S:4Ia-b, 93:2Ia-b; MHBG 162:1oa.
- KRS 1:12a-b, T'aejo 1.8.sinhaek (918).
- Modern scholars have been skeptical of T'aejo's motives and have suggested
that he was trying either to expand the tax base or weaken the economic base of the old
followers of Kungye and other political rivals in a period rife with plots and conspir-
acy. Hong Sunggi, Koryo kwijok sa/we wa nobi, pp. 60, 142-S7; Kameda, "Korai no
nuhi," part I, p. roo ff. See also Kim Ch'olch'un, "Ch'oe Sungno ui simu isipp'a1cho"
[The eighteen-point memorial of Ch'oe Sungno], in Hyosong Cho Myonggi paksa hwa-
gap kinyom Pulgyo sahak nonch'ong kanhaeng wiw6nhoe [Publication committee for
essays on the history of Buddhism in honor of the sixtieth birthday of Dr. Cho Myonggi],
ed., Pulgyo sahak nonch'ong [Essays on the history of Buddhism] (Seoul: 1965), pp.
227-S6. - Kameda, "Korai no nuhi," part I, pp. 93-148. Samguk sagi [Record of the Three
Kingdoms]so:qa (Keijo: Koden kankokai, 1931); KRS 2:8b, T'aejo 18.6 (93S). - He also mentioned low status post-station and ferry workers, KRS 2: 16b, T'aejo
26-4·(943).
2S. Koryosa chOryo (Seoul: Asea munhwasa, 1973), hereafter referred to as KRSCY
II :26a-b, Uijong 12.6 (IIS8), cited in Hong Sunggi, KO/}'6 kwijok sahoe, pp. 142, 148-SI. - KRS 8S:43b-44a, cited in Hong, Kory6 kwijok .I'ahoe, p. 142; Salem, "Slavery in
Medieval Korea," p. 77. - KRS 8s: 1 a-la, KRSCY 2:7b Kwangjong 7 (9S6); Salem, "Slavery in Medieval
Korea," p. 77. - KRS 31:31b-33a, 3sa-36a, 8S:43a-44a; ro8:sb-6a; MHBG 162:20a-b.
- See Kameda, "Korai no nuhi," part I, pp. 96-98, II9-21; part 2, p. S8; Sudo
Yoshiyuki, "Sensho ni okeru nuhi no benrei to suisatsu to ni tsuite [On the investigation
and adjudication of slaves in the early Chosen period] Seikyii gakuso 22 (November
1935):2,6-ro. - Kameda, "Korai no nuhi," part I, pp. 128-30; part 2, p. 61; Sudo Yoshiyuki, "Korai
makki yori Chosen shoki in itaru nuhi no kenkyu" [A study of slavery from late Koryo
to the early Choson period I, part I, Rekishigaku kenkyii 9, no. 1 (1939):8.