• Sijohaknonchong
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• v.22
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• pp.225-247
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• 2005

This article is aimed at reviewing the series of 'Gakssi (각씨)$\~$' Sijo or Saseolsijo. We can find the word 'Gakssi' having a very close relationship with alcohol. side dishes and the space where music is played in a record published before the late Chosun dynasty and it was recited in Korean verses. 'Gakssi' appeared in the verses did not mean average woman but a character raising the singing climate at the 'Juyeonseok(주연석) or Pungnyujang(풍류장)', as a mood-maker. $\lceil$Gaksine nae cheobi doena(각시니 내 첩이 되나)$\rfloor$($\#48$), the forerunner among the 'Gakssi (각씨)' verses, is no exception. In this context, we can come to the conclusion that this verse is closely related to such places as 'Juyeonseok(주연석) or Pungnyujang(풍류장)‘. Therefore, the others coming after $\#48$ can provide reasonable bases to consider this song associated with people who were able to visit those locations.

• Sijohaknonchong
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• v.30
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• pp.301-318
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• 2009

This article aims to interpret the meaning of the sentence "The night a green frog ached its stomach to death $\sim$", based upon the characteristics of certain Shijo poems which featured handicapped animals. Many Shijo poems feature animals, but they rarely feature them in a handicapped state. In those cases, readers usually try to identify the intentions of the author with the unjust and wrongful situations of the time the poem was written, but yet another interpretation could be presented, considering the premises necessary for understanding Saseol Shijo poems. Only among Saseol Shijo poems handicapped animals can be found in a Shijo text, and they are referred to and sung not in the stage of 'serious outbursts' being fired but during the stage of 'hollow jokes' being made. Any handicapped condition that an unhandicapped one could imitate could be imitated for humor, so the actions of a frog, a toad or an ant which forgot their own inabilities can be considered very comic and farcical in the eyes of the readers embracing the contents of the poem. In "The night a green frog ached its stomach to death$\sim$-"(#2834), the death of the green frog is no ordinary death. This particular frog could be referring to the baby frog which appeared in #3160, or the entire sentence could be referring to the fact that a particular figure which had already disrupted the atmosphere of the world inside the poem is no longer present in that world. Considering all these conditions inside the poem's own world, Shijo poems which featured handicapped animals were not meant to be delivering any kind of educational or critical messages, but they were rather either maintaining or heightening the mood inside the poem's own world.