근세 한국과 일본의 가족 비교: - 영속성(永續性)의 실현이라는 관점에서 = Comparison of Families in Modern Korea and Japan: From Aspect of Realization of Permanence

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the families of Korea and Japan maintained their permanence in the period of Joseon and Edo.

As for inheritance of property, in Joseon, divided succession had been sustained. In Japan, the patriarchal divided succession was converted into primogeniture or one-man inheritance in the Edo period. For family succession, in Joseon, the strategy of family succession was not for the succession itself but for preventing not having a son as the one who perform ancestral rites. Unlike Joseon which focused on succession of ancestral rites, Japan made inheritance of family headship a key factor of family succession.

As mentioned above, modern Korea centering on retention of families and Japan focusing on succession of families had different methods of realizing permanence of families due to differences in perception of families.