Flagpole Supports of Beomeosa Temple

Beomeosa Temple, well known for its unusual mountain-site layout, stands in a place of great natural beauty surrounded by forest. Amid the forest are countless steles and relics, and these flagpole supports, too, stand tall in a grove of pine trees. Flagpole supports are set up at the entrance to a temple: when the temple held an event, a banner called a dang was hung there. The long pole from which the banner was hung is called a danggan, and the pair of stone pillars that support it on either side is called danggan-jiju, or flagpole supports. In rare cases the pole itself survives, but in most cases only the two pillars remain. With these flagpole supports, the base and the support stone for the pole have both now disappeared, and only the two pillars on either side remain. On the inner face of the upper part of each pillar is a square groove that once held the pole in place, and the tops of both pillars are finished with a curve. The stonework shows uneven tool marks and so has a somewhat heavy, thick-set feel, but with no decoration or carving at all it presents a plain, unadorned appearance.

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Where it is

Region

Geumjeong-gu, Busan

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산