Artifacts Used by Yun Bong-gil (1976)

Yun Bong-gil was born in Saryang-ri, Deoksan-myeon, Yesan County, South Chungcheong Province. He studied at Deoksan Common School and at Ochiseosuk, and at the age of nineteen he set up a night school in his hometown, launching a rural enlightenment movement. At twenty he organised the Gakgok Reading Society and compiled the Nongmin Dokbon (A Farmer's Reader), and at twenty-two he organised the Woljinhoe and pursued rural movement activities with great energy. Once it was formed, Yun Bong-gil, then twenty-two, threw himself into the Woljinhoe's work; as the independence movement grew difficult to sustain at home, he went into exile in China at twenty-three and, in 1931, joined Kim Ku's Korean Patriotic Corps (Hanin Aegukdan). He went on to continue his struggle against Japan, and on 29 April 1932 acted alone in throwing a bomb into a ceremony held in Hongkou Park, Shanghai, to celebrate Japan's victory in the Shanghai Incident, succeeding in killing senior figures of the Japanese military command, including the commander-in-chief, Shirakawa. Arrested on the spot, Yun Bong-gil was sentenced to death at a single military trial, transferred to Japan in November, and died at Osaka Garrison Prison on 19 December 1932, at the age of twenty-four. The artifacts of Patriot Yun Bong-gil comprise: (1) a Woljinhoe passbook, irregular in the number of characters per line, 1 item, 14.8 × 17.3 cm, 1929; (2) a Woljinhoe banner, 2 items, 87.5 × 131.5 cm, 1929; (3) letters, 2 items, 16.8 × 125.4 cm, 1931–1932; (4) a ridge beam from Buheungwon, 1 item, length 252 cm, diameter 10 cm, 1926–1932; (5) a photograph of a declaration, 1 item, 1926–1932; (6) an inkstone, 1 item, 11 × 19 cm, thickness 3.5 cm, 1926–1932; (7) a brush holder, 1 item, height 12 cm, base diameter 8 cm, rim diameter 8 cm, 1926–1932; (8) a water dropper, 1 item, 6.3 × 4.5 cm, height 2.5 cm, 1926–1932; (9) a printing block, 1 item, 59 × 89 cm, height 37 cm, 1926–1932; (10) works in his own hand: a) 'Okta', a poetry collection, 1 volume, 25.1 × 19.2 cm, 1920s; b) a collection of Chinese-style poems, 1 volume, 25.0 × 19.1 cm, 1920s; c) 'Sunundaepyeon', a collection of letters, 1 volume, 25.1 × 19.2 cm, 1920s; d) 'Yeomnak', a poetry collection, 1 volume, 25.1 × 19.2 cm, 1920s; e) 'Imchu', a poetry collection, 1 volume, 21.5 × 19.2 cm, 1920s; f) 'Holgi', a collection of ritual protocols, 1 volume, 36.7 × 17.3 cm, 1920s; g) 'Myeongchu', a poetry collection, 1 volume, 22.5 × 15.0 cm, 1924; h) the Myeongsimbogam, a classic didactic text, 1 volume, 22.8 × 21.7 cm, 1920s; (11) the founding statement of the Wichin-gye mutual aid society, 1 item, 23.6 × 52.3 cm, 1929; (12) a desk box (yeonsang), 1 item, 24.5 × 17 × 33.5 cm, 1926–1932; (13) a tobacco box, 1 item, 1926–1932; (14) a bowl and covered dish in brass, 2 items — the covered bowl: height 8 cm, rim diameter 12.7 cm, base diameter 7 cm, lid diameter 13.5 cm, lid height 3 cm, thickness 3 mm; the dish: height 5.5 cm, rim diameter 15.5 cm, base diameter 17.3 cm, thickness 3 mm; (15) a spoon and chopsticks set, 1 set — spoon: length 21.3 cm, width 4.8 cm, handle width 8 mm; chopsticks: length 21 cm, 1926–1932; (16) a brass basin, 1 item, rim diameter 38.5 cm, base diameter 33 cm, height 10 cm, thickness 3 mm, 1926–1932; (17) an oil-lamp stand, 1 item, height 39 cm, octagonal base diameter 20 cm, stem diameter 3 cm, 1926–1932; (18) letter envelopes, 3 items — 4.8 × 7.2 cm, 8.0 × 18.4 cm and 7.5 × 13.0 cm.

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Yesan, Chungnam

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Treasure · 보물