Abstract
This report forms a part of a study on the changing process of the bracketing complex of the Tap'o style architecture in Korea. There are two types of the bracketing. One of them is the older type : the section of each member composing the bracketing, such as the bracket arm, was made separate one another, so that the profiles of the bracketing seemed not to be successive (Fig. 2). The other is the newer one : the profiles of bracketing members appeared to be continuous, since the sections of members were joined at either end (Fig. 1). The manner of forming the profiles continuously was at first discovered in the interior of the bracketing supported on the column of the main hall, the Tae-ung-jon of Kae-sim-sa (1484, Fig. 13). In the 17 th century, after the Im-jin War (1592-8), this type of bracketing was made popular, and the interior of the intercolumnor bracketing and the exterior of the bracketing were also made by this manner. Moreover, in almost all buildings after the second half of the 18 th century, the profiles of bracketing members were made continuous not only in the interior but also in the exterior of the bracketing in the Tap'o style architecture. And this manner is regarded as one of the charcteristics of the Tap'o style at the end of the Yi-Dynasty.
