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Ramie cloth, 140, 260, 264, 351, 498, 613, 619,
634, 747
Ranks: reforms with official, 129–130, 308; mili-
tary, 801, 879–880
Rape. See Crimes
Rebellions, 554–555, 623, 884. See also
Conspiracies
“Receiving the Precious Secret Scroll,” 291, 321
Records of the Transmission of the Lamp, 780
Recruitment: in military system, 180, 284,
419–420, 671; for public works, 802
Red, 794, 817
Red Turbans. See Bandits
Reforms: civil service examinations, 120–121;
Military Training Agency, 121; government
assistance, 121–122; government travel, 122;
granaries, 122; for seamen and duty soldiers,
122, 745–746; of Palace Guards, 123; of state-
run military farms, 123; tax, 123, 124; of crim-
inal code, 123–124, 129; land, 124, 484–486,
551, 709; with official ranks, 129–130, 308; of
government councils, 129–144; Privy Council,
130; military system, 367–373, 415–416, 419–
420, 796; of Royal Guards, 408, 671, 882; on
current affairs, 882–883
Registers, household, 420, 559, 637–638
Regulations of Six Ministries, 865
Regulus (star), 517, 518, 636, 742, 828, 830
Reichi (monk), 896
Relics. See Buddhism
Religions. See specific religions
Remonstrance, 112, 116, 323, 657, 794; public
opinion and, 203; importance of, 205–206,
424–425; from Office of Censor General,
501–502; about annals of T’aejo, 502–503. See
also Office of Remonstrance
Respect, 206, 418–419
Returning to My Quarters after Having Drinks at
Nanshi Pavilion, 653–654
Reverence, 110–112, 206
Revisiting Heming Pavilion and Listening to the
Sound of Jade Pendants, 654–655
Rewards, punishments and, 111
Rice, 513, 515, 523, 576; as gifts, 412, 472, 482,
486, 498, 499, 512, 540, 548, 553, 570, 572, 586,
601, 608, 633, 642, 660, 681, 702, 708, 719, 733,
738, 744, 858, 884, 893; for elderly, 512, 531;
crops, 826
Right Army, 58, 107–108, 287, 304, 310, 319
Righteousness Flourishing Capital Guard
Commands, 142, 152, 195, 199, 236, 282,
300–301, 306
Righteousness Flourishing Three Armies, 84, 239,
306, 319, 320, 415–416, 471–472, 475–476
Righteous Salt Storehouse, 140
Right Law Administrator, 619
Rites, 209, 324, 325, 492, 547; ceremonies and,
121, 141, 148, 164, 244, 249, 257, 258, 286, 348,
349, 351, 444, 462, 502, 529, 530, 533, 534, 560,
564, 572, 602–603, 605, 630, 637, 662, 664, 666,
707, 752, 801, 883; ancestral, 148, 502, 559; sac-
rifices and, 148, 149, 518; mourning, 164, 801;
Comprehensive Rites Agency, 211; to eliminate
natural disasters, 249, 322, 335, 490, 518, 562,
607–608, 618, 677, 700, 711, 736, 788; prayers
and, 266, 394, 403, 416, 455–456, 510, 516, 540–
541, 577, 593, 594, 673, 691, 704, 788, 827; for
dead, 321; to prevent celestial catastrophes, 741,
744, 747. See also Board of Rites; Book of Rites;
Office of Ancestral Rites
Rites of Zhou, 708, 710, 761
Rivers: prayers for spirits of, 403, 455–456. See
also specific rivers
Robberies. See Crimes
Robes: prohibitions on yellow, 589; as gifts,
662
Room Lodge, 327, 503
Royal Ancestral Shrine, 73–74, 79, 118,136, 149,
152, 186, 190, 244, 266, 281, 329, 336, 394, 428,
434, 439, 440, 529–530, 572, 590, 624, 756, 769,
774, 847, 854,860, 863, 876, 895; reconstruction
of, 195, 196; with lewd sacrifices, 209, 210; dia-
grams of, 244; sacrifices and, 443, 816; construc -
tion of, 447–449, 500, 513, 523, 533; rooms in,
523; for Sindŏk, 606, 610
Royal Ancestral Tablets, 526, 528–529, 598
Royal Cuisine Office, 152
Royal decrees: of Kongmin, 50; of Ch’ang, 65–
66; of Kongyang, 71–72, 80–81; of T’aejo, 118–
144, 228–229, 231–232, 272, 286–288, 294–295,
299–300, 407–408, 489–490, 530–532, 625–626;
drafting of, 129, 489–490; with Office of Royal
Decrees and State Records, 132, 158, 245, 308,
410, 472
Royal family: land for, 184, 394; banquets of, 449,
483
Royal Forest Park, 413
Royal garden, 205, 263, 275, 276, 285, 286, 295,
302
Royal Guard, 90, 250–251, 328, 371, 840; reform
of, 408, 671, 882; salaries of, 408; rules for,
415–416, 579; recruitment of, 419, 671;
Buddhist scriptures and, 501
Royal Horse Breeding Ranch, 741
Royal lectures, 73, 207, 421, 522; Office of Royal
Lectures, 133, 887
Royal messengers, 181, 182, 269–270, 464,
580 –581