Isipsam sangdaehoedo (Gathering of 23 Officials of Inspector-general) and Royal Edict Issued to Kim Jong-han

Isipsam sangdaehoedo is a gyehoedo (a painting commemorating a gathering of officials) made to commemorate a meeting held by twenty-three officials, including Kim Jong-han, who had served in the Office of the Inspector-general (Saheonbu). At the top is a title written in seal script, beneath which is a depiction of the gathering itself along with a commendatory poem. At the bottom is a jwamok, a register recording the names and official ranks of the participants together with the offices and names of their fathers. This format is characteristic of gyehoedo produced in the early Joseon period; compared with gyehoedo made later, the painted image itself occupies a much smaller proportion of the composition, and it is also unusual in that a separate section is set aside to record information about the participants' fathers. There is also a separate postscript to the jwamok recorded below; this document was transcribed by descendants, and its exact date of composition is unknown. The documents of appointment are five items, all gosin (certificates of appointment), relating to Kim Jong-han, who took part in the Saheonbu gathering. Because no other records survive, Kim Jong-han's detailed career is difficult to trace in full, but the gyehoedo shows that his courtesy name was Jonghae, his clan seat was Sangju, and his father was Kim Ha, who held the military rank of gyowi. According to the duplicate certificates, Kim Jong-han passed the civil service examination in the first year of the Chenghua era, began his official career as Seonmurang hundo, transferred in the fourth year of Chenghua to the post of Jongsarang hundo, and retired in the eighteenth year of the Hongzhi era from the post of Sasa (Fourth Counsellor) at Seonggyungwan, the National Confucian Academy. The five surviving certificates of appointment were thus issued between the first and ninth years of the Hongzhi era, showing that most of Kim Jong-han's appointments were made during his middle years.

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Where it is

Region

Yongin, Gyeonggi

Designation

Treasure · 보물