Head House of the Onhye Branch of the Jinseong Yi Clan, Andong

The head house of the Onhye branch of the Jinseong Yi clan was built around 1454, the second year of King Danjong, by Yi Gye-yang (1424–1488). The main building measures seven bays across the front and six bays deep, similar to the houses of yangban gentry typical of the northern regions. In particular, the birth room (taesil) where Toegye Yi Hwang was born is well preserved at the centre of the inner courtyard; it consists of a single-bay ondol (heated-floor) room linked to the veranda floor of the women's quarters, together with a half-bay-wide raised wooden-floor pavilion (numaru). Nosongjeong, standing to the right of the main building, was built as a nine-bay structure in 1589, the twenty-second year of King Seonjo, and retains its appearance from that time well. Records concerning the ridge-raising inscriptions and repairs of the shrine to the right of Nosongjeong and of the front gate building, among others, have survived down to the present, giving a well-preserved record of the building's history and clearly showing how it has changed along with its historical and cultural environment. The main building, the detached hall (byeoldang) and the family shrine (gamyo) together reveal the Confucian order embedded within a head house, and the spatial composition and layout of each area — the women's quarters, the men's quarters and so on — closely follow the general characteristics found in upper-class houses throughout the Andong region of North Gyeongsang Province.

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Region

Andong, Gyeongbuk

Designation

National Folklore Heritage · 국가민속문화유산