여지도서에 게재된 색지도에 관한 연구 = A STUDY OF OLD COUNTY MAPS IN YOZIDOSO

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Yoˇzidosoˇ, a collection of country geographical descriptions, edited during the period of King Yoˇng-jo (1725-1777), Yi Dynasty, contains a little over 300 provincial and county (Eup) maps of Korea. The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics and variations of old county maps that appeared in Yoˇzidosoˇ.
The results of this study are:
1) Scales of the old maps are not constant but approximately 1/50,000 scale in general.
2) Orientation of the old maps varies from map to map. Maps of north side up comprise 72.5%, west side up 10.4%, east side up 7.9%, south side up 7.1%, and some of uncertain directions. In the areas facing toward a river or coast, those physical features are usually oriented on the bottom of the maps.
3) Physical and cultural features such as mountains and buildings in the county maps are oriented variously. About 50% of maps show the features in an up-right position on the maps, a little less than half (47.5%) of the maps show the features oriented towards the center of the maps where the county seats are placed. A small portion (2.0%) of the maps show those features oriented towards a river.
4) The old maps show physical features such as mountains, rivers and seas, cultural features such as office buildings, store-houses, pavilions, temples, altars, administrative boundaries, fire signal stations, postal cosach stations, military camps, reserviors, bridges, roads, and royal tombs.
5) Old county maps rely more on pictorical representation than on usual map symbols. Mountains are colored in green or blue, rivers and seas in blue, administrative districts in white, yellow, red and blue, roads in red or yellow in general.