This paper analysis the characteristics of agricultural management and landlord-tenants system of Papyung Yun's clan by using recently found agricultural documents. The Yun family resided in Nosung county near Nonsan, Chungnam Province for nearly 500 years and reared several famous neo - Confucian scholars and became the outstanding family in Chosun period. The Yun family established a clan organization in order to supervise ancestral tomb and conduct ancestral ritual ceremony. To assist this organization economically, they accumulated massive arable land, together with numerous slaves and tenants. In the late 19th century, this clan organization possessed nearly 53ha of farmland and cast influence over 120 tenants. This clan manor situated within 4km from the center of ancestral cemetery and most of the tenants were the residents of this area. The agricultural management system of clan organization was somewhat differs from that of the ordinary landlords. Firstly, the amount of rent was lower than the other landlords and it was a form of share-cropping(jipjo). Also the tenants consisted of lineage members, slave descendents, dependent residents and other regional residents. The ratio of tenant continuity was longer than the other landlord manor. Moreover this family provided relief aid and social help in times of trouble and famine. It could be said that it had the form of moral economy. The relationship between the Yun family and the tenants were the patron - client relations. The family protected the residents from the feudal exploitation and natural disasters and famine in return for qualified labor force and submission. In other words, they were under the basis of reciprocal interaction at various levels in the community.

This paper analysis the characteristics of agricultural management and landlord-tenants system of Papyung Yun's clan by using recently found agricultural documents. The Yun family resided in Nosung county near Nonsan, Chungnam Province for nearly 500 years and reared several famous neo - Confucian scholars and became the outstanding family in Chosun period. The Yun family established a clan organization in order to supervise ancestral tomb and conduct ancestral ritual ceremony. To assist this organization economically, they accumulated massive arable land, together with numerous slaves and tenants. In the late 19th century, this clan organization possessed nearly 53ha of farmland and cast influence over 120 tenants. This clan manor situated within 4km from the center of ancestral cemetery and most of the tenants were the residents of this area. The agricultural management system of clan organization was somewhat differs from that of the ordinary landlords. Firstly, the amount of rent was lower than the other landlords and it was a form of share-cropping(jipjo). Also the tenants consisted of lineage members, slave descendents, dependent residents and other regional residents. The ratio of tenant continuity was longer than the other landlord manor. Moreover this family provided relief aid and social help in times of trouble and famine. It could be said that it had the form of moral economy. The relationship between the Yun family and the tenants were the patron - client relations. The family protected the residents from the feudal exploitation and natural disasters and famine in return for qualified labor force and submission. In other words, they were under the basis of reciprocal interaction at various levels in the community.

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Papyung Yun family, Clan landlord system, Reciprocity, Ratio of tenant continuity, Moral economy