Geumamjippanmok

This is a set of woodblocks carved for printing the poetry collection of Song Mong-in (1586–1612), a scholar of the mid-Joseon period. His ancestral seat was Eunjin, his courtesy name was Munbyeong, and his pen name was Geumam. He showed outstanding talent for poetry from an early age and, in 1605, the 38th year of King Seonjo, passed the jinsa examination, a lower-level state civil service qualifying examination; he died at the age of thirty-one while preparing for the higher state examination. After his death, Song Guk-taek, the second son of his cousin Song Hui-myeong, was adopted as his heir. Because he died young, Song Mong-in left no great body of achievement, but his poetry and prose were held in very high regard, and scholars such as Yi Su-gwang and Sin Ik-seong praised his work in the preface and postface to the Geumamjip. After Song Mong-in's death, his wife, of the Min clan, compiled and arranged the collection from draft manuscripts kept in the household, and it was edited into a single volume after being proofread by her uncle, Yi Su-gwang. It was then transcribed in clean copy by the author's friend Yi Si-jik, pen name Jukchang (1572–1637), and carved onto woodblocks by the monk Jisung of Biraeam Hermitage in Hoedeok, being printed in 1616, the 8th year of King Gwanghaegun; the printing blocks were kept at Biraeam Hermitage. The Geumamjip contains a total of 208 poems of 112 kinds. It originally comprised 43 blocks, but only 33 now survive.

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Where it is

Region

Yuseong-gu, Daejeon

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산