Ijaenango

The Ijaenango is a diary, or account in narrative form, written by a man called Yi Jae from the age of ten until shortly before his death at 63, recording everything he saw, heard, learned and thought across literature, mathematics, ritual studies, Daoist studies, geography, calendrical astronomy, linguistics and the arts, encompassing practical matters used in human life across politics, economics, society, agriculture, industry and commerce. It comprises 57 volumes of some 6,000 pages. For each volume Yi Jae recorded the year in which he began and finished writing, and gave it the cover title Nango; considering not only its enormous volume but also its practical-learning content, the Ijaenango can be called the foremost work in the history of Korean writing. However, when the sequel collection was published, only a small portion selected from the Nango was included, consisting of little more than poetry and prose, linguistics, mathematics and Daoist-studies material, amounting to less than a fifth of the content of the Nango. The Nango is highly valued as an extremely precious scholarly resource for the study of practical learning.

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Where it is

Region

Gochang, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산