Bongnae yumuk (Calligraphy by Yang Sa-eon)

This calligraphy album gathers handwritten poetry and prose by Yang Sa-eon (pen name Bongnae, 1517-1684); it includes a transcription of Heo Gang's Seoho byeolgok (Song of the West Lake) as well as poems of his own composition and verses written in a mixture of Hangul and Chinese characters. Yang Sa-eon was a mid-Joseon man of letters and calligrapher, especially skilled in the standard (haeseo) and cursive (choseo) scripts, and together with Prince Anpyeong, Kim Ku and Han Ho he was counted among the "Four Great Calligraphers" of the early Joseon period. The album contains more than ten Chinese-style poems (hansi) not found in Yang's own poetry collection, Bongnae sijip, and, although Yang is best known for his wild cursive (gwangchopung) style, it shows his more ordinary, everyday hand; the mingling of Hangul and Chinese characters is particularly distinctive. As one of Yang Sa-eon's very rare surviving calligraphic works, the poems and prose it contains provide valuable material for the study of classical Chinese literature, and it is also an important reference source for the rare mixed use of Hangul and Chinese characters in the sixteenth century.

AI Translation

Where it is

Region

Seodaemun-gu, Seoul

Designation

Treasure · 보물