Sambongjip Woodblocks

Sambong is the pen name of Jeong Do-jeon (1342–1398), a civil official at the end of Goryeo and the beginning of Joseon and a meritorious subject who helped found the Joseon dynasty, and the Sambongjip is his collected writings. The Sambongjip Woodblocks were carved at the Gyeongsang Provincial Office in 1791 (the 15th year of King Jeongjo) in order to print the Sambongjip. The set originally comprised 14 volumes on 228 blocks, but owing to later additional carving, 266 blocks are now held at the Sambong Memorial Hall and two blocks at the Gyeonggi Provincial Museum. After being carved, the woodblocks were kept at Yongyeonsa Temple in Daegu until Jeong Jong-in, an 18th-generation descendant of Jeong Do-jeon, moved them to Pyeongtaek. When the woodblock repository at Yongyeonsa Temple was on the verge of collapse, permission was obtained to move the blocks, and an inspection at that time found that 34 blocks were missing, so these were supplemented by newly carved blocks. An account of this is recorded in an afterword at the end of the edition of the Sambongjip additionally printed in 1914. The Sambongjip Woodblocks are finely carved, making them valuable material for the study of print culture, and they are also highly valuable as a source encompassing the full range of Sambong Jeong Do-jeon's political, economic and philosophical thought. In particular, after the 1791 woodblock edition was re-edited and published by scholars of the Gyujanggak Royal Library on the order of King Jeongjo, most versions of the Sambongjip known today have circulated on the basis of this edition. It was published by Hoedong Seogwan in 1921 and again by the Bonghwa Jeong Clan Genealogy Compilation Office in 1935. On the basis of the woodblock edition supplemented in 1914, during the Japanese colonial period, a facsimile edition was published by the Joseon Old Books Publication Society in 1916, and facsimile editions have continued to be published several times up to recent years.

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Where it is

Region

Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산