Han Eung-in Portrait and Ritual House Yumul (set)

The Han Eung-in Portrait and Ritual House Yumul (set) refers to a portrait of Han Eung-in (1554-1614), a civil official of the Joseon dynasty under King Seonjo, together with nine wooden ritual implements that remained in the shrine housing the portrait. Han Eung-in's clan seat was Cheongju, and his pen names were Baekjolje and Hanyuchon. In January 1590, the 23rd year of King Seonjo, he was awarded the title of First Class Pyeongnan Meritorious Subject and received a commemorative portrait of the kind given to meritorious subjects. As a meritorious subject bearing the title of "Gun" (Lord), he held the senior second rank, and is shown wearing the cloud-and-wild-goose rank badge and the crane-crest gold belt appropriate to that rank. Han Eung-in's cloud-and-wild-goose badge shows pictorial elements expressed more strongly than in badges that are primarily patterned designs. The official's cap (samo) is noticeably too tall, and the round-collared robe (dallyeong) is rendered in a markedly formulaic way. Such features suggest that this painting is a later copy (imobon) made in a subsequent period. The face is turned in three-quarter profile, while the chest faces forward and the angles of the shoulders and arms on either side are close to symmetrical. Even if this portrait of Han Eung-in is such a later copy, it is very notable that it still clearly retains the tradition and characteristics of the earlier Jeongguk Meritorious Subject portraits. The nine wooden ritual implements, designated Gyeonggi Province Tangible Cultural Heritage together with the portrait, comprise two folding chairs (gyoui) for enshrining the spirit tablet, one box (judok) for storing the spirit tablet, one spirit tablet (sinju), two offering tables (jesang), one incense-burner table, and two tables holding the cups from which wine is poured to invoke the spirit during the ancestral rite. These are estimated to have been made in the mid-seventeenth century and are valuable reference material for the study of wooden ritual implements of the period.

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Where it is

Region

Ansan, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산