Sin Saimdang Cursive Script Folding Screen

This folding screen is a six-panel work on which Sin Saimdang (1504–1551) wrote five-character quatrains in cursive script. Sin Saimdang was a leading artist of the Joseon period and the mother of Yi I (Yulgok). She married Yi Won-su at the age of nineteen, and after her father's death completed the three-year mourning period at her natal home before moving to Seoul. With her outstanding artistic sensibility she left behind numerous works, including paintings of plants and insects, of reeds and geese, and of ducks on a knotweed-covered bank. This screen was brought along by a grandniece of Sin Saimdang when she married into the Choe Dae-hae family. It later passed into the hands of someone from a neighbouring county, but Yi Hyang-dal, the magistrate of Gangneung, heard of this and arranged for its return. It was afterwards handed down in the house of Choe Don-gil in Dusan-dong, Gangneung, until the city of Gangneung took possession of it in 1971, after which it came to be kept at the Yulgok Memorial Hall. Sin Saimdang's calligraphy on this screen was also carved onto woodblocks, which are kept at Ojukheon House. These blocks were made when Yun Jong-ui, magistrate of Gangneung during the reign of Emperor Gojong, copied the writing on the screen and had it carved separately; many rubbings have since been taken from them. A colophon by the magistrate is also attached to the screen, recording the circumstances of its transmission.

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Where it is

Region

Gangneung, Gangwon

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산