불화 속 여인들의 머리형태에 관한 고찰

A Study on Hair Style of Women in Buddhist Paintings

There are several types of Buddhist paintings, among which the target of this study was the descriptive ones. The reasons why the Buddhist painting was chosen for the study of classical hair style were as follows: first, its temporal background is far broader than folk painting or genre paintings; second, the class layers in it is so diverse that it sometimes expresses the high-class women in it. During the Three Kingdoms Age, such an aspect can be also seen in the old tombs of Goguryeo, especially in Jangcheon No.1 and Ssangyeongchong. In tre Goryeo Age, a lot of excellent descriptive paintings were produced under royal protection. Byeonsangdo and Suwolgwaneumdo were example of these. Though the Joseon Dynasty encouraged Confucianism and suppressed Buddhism, there were many Buddhist paintings. Especially, as Joseon Buddhist paintings came to be so deeply rooted into ordinary people's lives that they were not largely constrained by the class layers, we can see not only ordinary people but also high-class women in them. Overlapping with the age of folk painting,Joseon Buddhist paintings went to their latter age, where the women were expressed more diversely than in folk paintings.