Sancheong Danseonghyeon Household Register Jangbu

A household register (hojeok) was an official document compiled by the state to conscript manpower and collect taxes. During the Joseon period each county and prefecture compiled a household register every three years, recording addresses, resident population, social status, age and owned slaves, among other details; several copies were made and kept at the local prefectural office, the provincial government office, and the central Ministry of Taxation (Hojo). The Sancheong Danseong-hyeon household registers record the residents of Danseong-hyeon (now the southern part of Sancheong County) from 1678, the fourth year of King Sukjong of Joseon, to 1888, the twenty-fifth year of Emperor Gojong. Danseong Hyanggyo kept thirteen volumes covering the years 1678 to 1789, which are now held at the Rare Books Library of Gyeongsang National University; the remaining nineteenth-century registers were taken to Japan during the Japanese colonial period. The Sancheong Danseong-hyeon household registers record in detail the population, social status and property of the residents of Danseong-hyeon in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, making them an extremely valuable source for understanding the society of Danseong-hyeon at that time.

AI Translation

Where it is

Region

Jinju, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산