A Study on Hair Style and Headdress in the Joseon Dynasty Genre Paintings: Focusing on the Genre Paintings of Danwon Kim Hong-do, Geungjae Kim Deug-shin, and Hyewon Shin Yoon-bok

Abstract

This study sought to provide basic data for developing the new korean hairstyle images by studying the hairstyles and headdress of Joseon dynasty in the late 18th and 19th centuries, focusing on the genre paintings of the three major Joseon genre painters, Danwon Kim Hong-do, Geungjae Kim Deug-shin, and Hyewon Shin Yoon-bok. The subjects of the study consisted of 25 pieces of the paintings of Kim Hong-do's "Danwon Genre Painting Book", 8 pieces of the paintings of Kim Deug-shin’s "Geungjae Genre Painting Book", and 30 pieces of the paintings of Shin Yoon-bok's "Hyewon Genre Painting Book". The following results were obtained: First, in terms of the sex ratio, the proportion of males was much higher than that of women’s, the age ratio, the proportion of middle-aged was much higher than elderly ones. By painter, Danwon interested in young children and boys, Geungjae in man adults, and Hyewon in female adult prostitute namely keesaeng. Second, looking at the hair style and headdress of men, there were far more types of headdress of men than women. The most common hair styles & headdress of men were Got, Sangtoo. Chidren before marred done Baird, bushy hair, and tied hair. In addition, Gun, Faereng-ee, Gumkijeon-lip, Bang-gun, Go-kal, Song-nak, Yu-gun, Bock-gun, Sat-got, Samo, Jeon-lip, Tang-gun, Cho-lip, Kalte-gee were appeared. Third, looking at the womens, the most common hair styles & headdress of women were Tre-meory and Eunjeun-meory. Children before married done Keemeet-meory. And Gun, Jeon-mo, Jang-ot, Tsuge chima, Garima, Ju-lip, Jeon-lip, Sat-got, Naul were appeared.