Records of Property Inheritance to Princess Suksin

The Records of Property Inheritance to Princess Suksin is a bunjaegi (a document recording the division of property) in which Yi Seong-gye, King Taejo of Joseon, granted a house to a daughter born to one of his concubines, whom he later invested as Princess Suksin. It is written in eight lines; after the main text a large blank space is left, followed by the words "Taesangwang" (Grand Supreme King), beneath which is King Taejo's sugyeol, a personal mark equivalent to a signature. The entire text is written in idu, a system using Chinese characters to transcribe Korean, and records in detail the house site, its orientation, the timber used in construction, the layout of the house, and the number of bays in the buildings; at the end it states that the descendants shall reside there in perpetuity. As the earliest house-granting document of the Joseon dynasty, it is valued as important material for the study of the legal system governing property such as houses and land in the early Joseon period.

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Where it is

Region

Yongsan-gu, Seoul

Designation

Treasure · 보물