Yuhoedangpangak Pavilion

These are printing woodblocks made to publish the literary collection of Kwon Yi-jin (pen name Yuhoedang, 1668–1734), a civil official of the late Joseon period. A maternal grandson of Song Si-yeol, Kwon passed the state civil examination in 1694 and entered government service. In 1728, the fourth year of King Yeongjo, he became Minister of Taxation and proposed that the royal court should stop purchasing farmland from commoners and should not collect tribute goods in excess of the fixed quota. The Yuhoedang woodblocks were carved in the early years of King Sunjo's reign (1807–1827) by Kwon Sang-seo (pen name Jwaong, 1767–1835), Kwon Yi-jin's great-grandson. Of the original 246 blocks, 244 survive, kept in Jangpangak, an annex building at Yuhoedang. Pear and pine wood were used as the materials. The woodblocks contain poems, memorials to the throne, reports from local officials, deliberative writings and letters, and include a substantial body of historical material from the period when Kwon Yi-jin held office (1700–1734). Among these, the material concerning diplomacy with Japan and Neo-Confucian scholarship is valued as important source material for understanding the international affairs and scholarship of the time.

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Where it is

Region

Jung-gu, Daejeon

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산