Structure and Meaning of a Korean 'Nujeongwon'

摘要

This study presents a concept of a Korean traditional landscape style, "nujeongwon(樓亭苑)", which is a conceptualized landscape with a "nujeong(樓亭)", and analyzes the structure and meaning of the nujeongwon. The elements of the nujeongwon—location, building, landscape, and human—were presented and the characteristics were reviewed.Structural methods were used to analyze the inherent structural significance of nujeongwon in terms of the relationship between "human and human" and "nature and human." In a human and human relationship, a nujeongwon has a social significant because it is symbolizes a vertical connection between the ancestors and the descendants, and a horizontal connection relating to the community in a village. In a nature and human relationship, the nujeongwon is closely related to the gyeong(景),where the beautiful landscape is conceptualized. A gyeong is made complete by the combination and contrast of landscape elements and the time which means four dimensional.This study explains that nujeongwon is not only a passive place where one can admire the beauty of the landscape, but also an active one, through paintings and poetic expressions such as gyeong(景), yeong(詠)—which express static appreciation of landscape—and gok(曲)—which express dynamic appreciation of landscape. This study also explains that nujeongwon is a creatively conceptualized traditional Korean landscape space.