Kim Jong-jik Jeompiljae Hall Collected Works and Ijollok Woodblocks

The Jeompiljae Munjip is a set of woodblocks for the collected prose and poetry of Kim Jong-jik (1431–1492), the leader of the Yeongnam School of Confucian scholars (sarim) in the Joseon period. Kim Jong-jik was a civil official of the early Joseon period who passed the state examination in 1459 and held various posts, including Jehak (Second Counsellor) of the Hongmungwan (Office of Special Advisors) and Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Personnel. Excelling in both literary composition and history, he played a pivotal role in carrying forward the essence of Joseon Neo-Confucian learning (dohak). This collection was compiled in 1493, the twenty-fourth year of King Seongjong, when Kim Jong-jik's nephew Jang Jung-jin gathered the original manuscripts, which were then edited by Jo Wi, a disciple of Kim Jong-jik; before it could be printed, however, it was entirely lost in the Muo Sahwa (Muo Literati Purge). Jang Jung-jin later gathered the remaining writings, and the collection was published as a woodblock-printed edition in Seonsan in 1517, the twelfth year of King Jungjong. The Jeompiljae Munjip comprises twenty-three volumes of poetry and two volumes of prose, twenty-five volumes in total, with a chronological biography, a record of the Muo Sahwa, and a register of disciples appended. These woodblocks were transferred in 1789 and are now kept at Yerim Seowon. The Ijollok is a book of family history containing the genealogical chart (bodo) and chronology of Kim Jong-jik's father, Kim Suk-ja, records of gatherings with friends, ritual ceremonies, and exemplary family precepts, together with an appended biographical account of Kim Jong-jik's maternal grandfather. The edition first published in 1497, the third year of Yeonsangun's reign, was destroyed by fire during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598), and was subsequently republished at Yerim Seowon. It consists of two volumes, upper and lower.

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Where it is

Region

Miryang, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산