It is notable that there have not been published specific studies concerning cursive script (草書) in Korea. Practicing and studying of cursive script require many times because it is the most abbreviated type in Sino-Korean characters. For this reason, it is only calligraphers and scholars of classics who can read and write this script.
Generally, traditional calligraphers copied several Chinese famous models for the purpose of practicing calligraphy. Scholars of classics had a responsibility to read, understand, and teach it for their students on the base of teachings of masters'
Therefore, cursive script has been thought to be the secret and it caused to make difficult in building any theories on it. In today's Asian countries sharing Chinese characters, cursive script dictionaries containing famous calligraphers' works have been compiled. In this context, this paper attempts to explore some aspects as follows.
In the first place, the writer investigates what stage of cursive script in the successive changes of Chinese characters is. Running script (行書) was devised in order to write clerical script easily as well as rapidly in Chin dynasty China. The writer attempts to erudite that cursive script was derived from clerical script(隸書), and running script was derived from standard script(楷書) in the development of cursive script from Han till Tang dynasties China.
Secondly, the development of cursive script of the Joseon dynasty was broadly fallen to the first and second stages. In the first stage, early Joweon period, cursive script was written without regulation while it was controlled by disciplines in the late Joseon period. Yi-Ik(李瀷) and Yi Kyu-hyeong(李圭景), scholars of the late Joweon period, remained their writings concerning cursive script.
Finally, this paper explores characteristics of cursive script showed in calligraphic works, letters, and historical manuscripts. Aspects on social status of calligraphers, size of each character, and documents are also considered.
As mentioned above, this paper only is an attempt, but it covers all formative stages of cursive script throughout the Joweon dynasty. For the further research, other undertakings such as an analysis of calligraphic details and materials are waiting.
목차
I. 緖言 II. 草書의 形成과 發展 1. 草書의 의미 2. 초서의 발전 단계 3. 草書의 실용성과 예술성 III. 朝鮮時代의 草書觀 1. 李瀷의 草書觀 2. 李圭景의 草書觀 IV. 朝鮮時代 草書의 樣相 1. 草書의 層位 2. 草書의 樣相 V. 結言 Abstract
키워드
cursive script(草書)clerical script(隸書)running script(行書)calligraphic script styles( 書體)calligraphers of the Joseon dynasty(朝鮮時代 書藝家 )private letters(簡札)Korean historical manuscripts(古文書)
한림대학교 태동고전연구소 [THE TAEDONG CENTER FOR EASTERN CLASSICS]
설립연도
1963
분야
인문학>한국어와문학
소개
연구소는 한국 및 동양의 전통문화를 계승 발전시키기 위하여 한문연수를 통한 연구인력 양성과 연구사업수행을 목적으로 한다. 연구소는 위 목적을 달성하기 위하여 교육사업으로 한문연수과정을 개설하여 연구인력을 양성하고 고전문헌의 조사연구정리 학술지간행 고전번역출판 학술발표회개최 국내외연구기관과의 교류사업을 추진한다.