Calligraphy by Song Jun-gil

This large-character running-cursive (haengcho) work by Dongchundang Song Jun-gil, a scholar, court official and celebrated calligrapher of the mid-Joseon period, transcribes the seven-character quatrain "Viewing Plum Blossoms at Jeogung, Sent to Kang-hu" (渚宮觀梅寄康侯) by the Song-dynasty poet Yang Shi. It is written across four sheets of jangji, a thick traditional paper, joined together. The closing inscription, "written by Old Man Chun in the gi-yu year of the Chongzhen era, in the fourth lunar month, as a gift to my grandson Byeong-ha" (崇禎己酉淸和春翁書贈孫炳夏), shows that it was written in the fourth month of 1669 by a sixty-four-year-old grandfather for his grandson, Song Byeong-ha (courtesy name Jahwa). Among the many works of calligraphy left by Dongchundang Song Jun-gil (1606–1672), this hanging scroll is the largest in scale, and is a rare example that fully preserves both the name of the recipient, his grandson Song Byeong-ha, and the date of writing, 1669. Having been handed down within the head family of his descendants, it also survives in excellent condition.

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Where it is

Region

Yuseong-gu, Daejeon

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Treasure · 보물