Historic Site Related to Yi Sun-sin, Asan

This is the house Yi Sun-sin lived in until he passed the military examination, and the ground he practised on. The archery range is still here. A shrine was raised in 1706 and named Hyeonchungsa by the king himself the following year. It was maintained for two centuries, allowed to decline under Japanese rule, and rebuilt as a national site in 1967 — which is when it acquired the scale it has now. The museum holds the largest collection of Yi's own things anywhere: nine National Treasures, including the seven volumes of the war diary, the dispatch drafts and the letter album, and twenty-two Treasures among them his two long swords, his belt, and the royal patents appointing him. The grave of his third son, killed by Japanese troops in 1597, is on the grounds.

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Where it is

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Asan, Chungnam

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Historic Site · 사적