Heungdeok Flagpole Supports

A danggan-jiju is a pair of stone supports set up at the entrance to a Buddhist temple to hold a danggan, a tall flagpole from which a banner called a dang was hung during temple events and ceremonies. This pair of supports, standing at the entrance to Heungdeok Hyanggyo, a local Confucian school, is all that survives of a temple known only by its name, Galgongsa; no further details about the temple remain. Today only the two rectangular, corner-rounded stone posts survive, the base and the pole-socket having both disappeared. Near the top on the inner face of each post is a hole for fixing the danggan in place, and on the outer face three lotus-flower motifs are carved on each side. These lotus motifs are extremely rare, found on no other danggan-jiju. Having originally been broken, the supports were restored and repaired in 1987. The work is presumed to date from the Goryeo period.

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Where it is

Region

Gochang, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산