Unbugunok

This copy of the Unbugunok was commissioned for printing because King Sejong judged it an essential reference work for scholars and writers. In the autumn of 1435 (the seventeenth year of King Sejong's reign), on the day Yu Gye-mun took his leave of the king before departing to take up his post as governor of Gangwon Province, the king ordered that the book be printed. The actual printing, however, took place the following spring, after King Sejong provided the Hall of Worthies (Jiphyeonjeon) with two fine copies from the royal lecture-hall library to serve as printing masters. The colophon to this edition was written by Nam Su-mun in June 1437, and it ends with the note "printed in separate sections at Gangneung and Wonju", showing that the printing was divided between the two locations. The original text supplied by royal order from the Hall of Worthies, for reprinting as woodblocks, was itself a book of the Yuan dynasty of China. The Unbugunok was compiled by Eum Si-bu of the Yuan dynasty. It comprises twenty chapters, arranging entries by rhyme category and giving under each rhyme a trail of citations back to its original source — a kind of encyclopaedic rhyming dictionary. Entries are grouped under four tone classes: level tone (pyeongseong), rising tone (sangseong), departing tone (geoseong) and entering tone (ipseong), and within each class further divided into individual rhyme groups, each headed by a representative character. The set is made up as follows. Volume 1, Unbugunok, Level Tone: Chapter 1 (一東・二冬・三江), Chapter 2 (四支・五微・六魚). Volume 2, Level Tone: Chapter 3 (七虞・八齊・九佳・十灰), Chapter 4 (十一真・十二文・十三元・十四寒・十五刪). Volume 3, Level Tone: Chapter 5 (一先・二萧・三肉・四豪・五歌), Chapter 6 (六麻・七陽). Volume 4, Level Tone: Chapter 7 (八庚・九青・十蒸), Chapter 8 (十一尤・十二侵・十三覃・十四鹽・十五咸). Volume 5, Unbugunok, Rising Tone: Chapter 9 (一東・二肿・三講・四紙・五尾・六語), Chapter 10 (七麻・八蕽・九螢・十贖・十一輫・十二吻・十三阮・十四旱). Volume 6, Rising Tone: Chapter 11 (十五潸・十六鋭・十七篠・十八巧・十九皤・二十哿・二十一馬・二十二養), Chapter 12 (二十三梗・二十四造・二十五有・二十六寢・二十七感・二十八琥・二十九谏). Volume 7, Unbugunok, Departing Tone: Chapter 13 (一送・二宋・三絛・四寡・五未・六御・七遇), Chapter 14 (八霄・九泰・十卦・十一隊・十二震). Volume 8, Departing Tone: Chapter 15 (十三問・十四願・十五翰・十六諾・十七霧・十八嘆・十九效・二十號・二十一個), Chapter 16 (二十二禡・二十三漱・二十四敬・二十五徑・二十六宥・二十七沁・二十八勘・二十九艙・三十陷). Volume 9, Unbugunok, Entering Tone: Chapter 17 (一屋・二沃・三覺), Chapter 18 (四質・五物・六月・七曷・八黝・九屑). Volume 10, Entering Tone: Chapter 19 (十藥・十一陌), Chapter 20 (十二錉・十三職・十四緽・十五合・十六葉・十七洽).

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Region

Yuseong-gu, Daejeon

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산