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The Development and Significance of Physic Gardens in the Late Goryeo and Early Joseon Dynasties

여말선초 약초원의 형성 과정과 조경사적 의미 고찰

  • Kim, Jung-Hwa (Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
  • 김정화 (서울대학교 농업생명과학연구원)
  • Received : 2017.06.29
  • Accepted : 2017.10.05
  • Published : 2017.10.31

Abstract

This study traces the development of physic gardens in Korea and explores their significance in the history of landscape architecture. For this purpose, records related to physic gardens from medical sources from the period of the Three States to the Joseon dynasty, when herbal medicine was systematized as a field, were searched. Physic gardens had been developed by the time of the late Goryeo and early Joseon dynasties, in the 13th and the 15th centuries. Yakpo(kitchen gardens for medicinal herbs) were cultivated by a group of new high-level officials in the late Goryeo dynasty, when an increasing interest in hyangyak(native herbs) emerged under the influence of the Neo-Confucian perspective on nature, which emphasized locality. The sources analyzed in this study confirm that physic gardens called jong-yakjeon(royal medicinal herb gardens) were in operation in the early Joseon dynasty when policies to investigate, discover, cultivate, and research native herbs were put into place. It is likely that the jong-yakjeon were established at the beginning of the Joseon dynasty as subsidiary facilities under its central medical institutions, the Naeuiwon and Hyeminseo, and then declined in the late Joseon dynasty. Jong-yakjeon can be confirmed to have existed in the mid-15th century. Physic gardens were located in several places outside the Fortress Wall of Hanyang, such as Yakhyeon, Yuldo, Yeoudo, and Saari. The total area encompassed by physic gardens was about 160,000 square meters in the early 18th century. In jong-yakjeon, dozens of medicinal herbs were cultivated, including Schizonepeta tenuifolia var. japonica, Rehmannia glutinosa, and Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fischer, and these gardens were operated by physicians dispatched from the Naeuiwon and dozens of provincial slaves. In conclusion, the jong-yakjeon were similar to the physic gardens of Renaissance medical universities in that they reflected the interest in and development of theories about new herbs, and were similar to the physic gardens of medieval castles and monasteries in terms of species types, location, and function. This paper has limitations in that it does not present the specific spatial forms of the yakpo or the jong-yakjeon. Nevertheless, this paper is significant for the field of garden history because it shows that physic gardens in Korea appeared in the late Goryeo and early Joseon dynasties concomitantly with the development of medicine towards native herbs and functioned as utilitarian gardens to cultivate community remedies.

본 연구는 우리나라 약초원의 형성 과정을 추적하고 조경사적 의미를 밝히는 데 목적을 둔다. 이를 위해 본초학 연구가 이루어진 삼국시대부터 조선시대에 이르는 시기의 의료체계 속에서 약초원과 관련한 기록을 찾아보았다. 약초원은 여말선초인 13~15세기에 발달하였다. 지역성을 강조하는 성리학적 자연관의 영향으로 토산 약초를 뜻하는 향약(鄕藥)에 대한 관심이 높아진 고려 말 문인들이 약포(藥圃)를 가꾼 경향이 발견되며, 향약 조사 발견 재배 탐구 등 관련 정책이 시행된 조선 초 종약전(種藥田)이라는 이름의 약초원이 조성된 사실이 확인된다. 내의원과 혜민서와 같은 중앙의료 기구 부속 시설이었던 종약전은 15세기 중반에 실재했던 것으로 확인되고 조선 건국과 함께 설립되어 조선 후기에 쇠퇴한 것으로 추정된다. 종약전은 약현, 율도, 여우도, 사아리 등 한양 도성 밖 여러 곳에 있었고, 그 규모는 18세기 초 당시 약 16만 제곱미터였다. 형개, 지황, 감초 등을 포함한 수십 종이 종약전에서 재배되었고, 내의원에서 파견된 의관과 관노비 수십 명에 의해 종약전이 운영되었다. 종약전은 새로운 약초에 대한 학문적 관심이라는 사회적 배경 측면에서 르네상스시대 의과대학의 약초원과 공통점을, 약초의 종류 위치 기능 등의 측면에서 중세 유럽의 성곽과 수도원 내 약초원과 유사점을 지닌다. 본 연구는 약포와 종약전의 구체적 공간 형태를 밝히지 못한 점에서 한계를 가지나, 우리나라에서 약초원이라는 정원 유형이 여말선초 향약을 중심으로 한 의학의 발달과 함께 나타났으며 공동체의 치료제 재배를 위한 실용정원으로 기능했음을 밝혔다는 점에서 의의를 지닌다.

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