Je Bong Collected Works Woodblocks

The Jebong munjip (Je Bong Collected Works) is the posthumous collection of Go Gyeong-myeong (1533–1592, pen name Je Bong), published by his youngest son Go Myeong-hu while serving as magistrate of Namwon, with funds donated by wealthy residents of the area. Go Gyeong-myeong was a civil official of the mid-Joseon period: in 1558 he placed first in an examination held in person by the king at Seonggyungwan, and in the same year again placed first in the higher civil service examination. When the Japanese invasions of 1592 broke out, he gathered together government troops who had scattered and fled from various places to fight the Japanese, and then raised a righteous army of some 6,000 volunteers to continue the resistance. These woodblocks comprise the five-chapter Jebong munjip, Go Gyeong-myeong's collected poetry and prose, together with a one-chapter Sokjip supplementing omitted material and a one-chapter, one-volume Yujip. They were carved and published together with several other texts: the Yuseoseongnok, an account of a journey he made with others to Seoseoksan Mountain (now Mudeungsan Mountain); the Jeonggirok, which records the exploits of Go Gyeong-myeong and his eldest and second sons, three men in all, during the Japanese invasions; and the Jehahwirok, which compiles various records of the Go family. All the blocks are of birch, carved on both faces. As a set of 17th-century woodblocks for a private literary collection, they are valued as an important resource for research into the history of woodblock printing technology, among other subjects.

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Where it is

Region

Nam-gu, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산