Landscape Painting by Yi Ui-yang

This work is an ink landscape painted in 1811, the 11th year of King Sunjo, by Yi Ui-yang, who held the military post of busayong and took part as a court painter in the mission of the twelfth and last Joseon tongsinsa, a diplomatic mission sent to Japan, led by envoy Kim I-gyo, after he saw a painting by Tani Bunchō, then renowned as a master of Japanese ink painting. The poem inscribed on the painting was likewise composed and written by Jin Dong-ik, a former magistrate who took part in the mission as its second interpreter. The painting itself is a Southern School style landscape modelled on Tani Bunchō's work, depicting a peaceful, secluded mountain-and-water scene together with small figures enjoying the view. The composition is arranged in two registers, with the main peaks in the upper section and, in the lower section, nearby hills and trees in the foreground. This work not only shows the painterly skill of Yi Ui-yang, a painter of the Dohwaseo, the Royal Bureau of Painting, who nonetheless excelled at Southern School painting, but also allows us to trace another aspect of the exchange of painting and calligraphy with Japan during the 1811 tongsinsa mission. The Landscape Painting by Yi Ui-yang is a direct relic of Joseon-Japanese cultural exchange, painted in Japan in comparison with the work of a Japanese painter through the tongsinsa mission, and it is notable for bearing the added calligraphy of Jin Dong-ik, known as a fine calligrapher who took part in the same mission. For Busan, which as the departure and return point of the tongsinsa missions has a close relationship with them, this work is valued as a cultural heritage of very great documentary worth.

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Where it is

Region

Nam-gu, Busan

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산