Woodblocks and Historical Documents held at Yeongamnok East and West Won

These artefacts are kept at Nokdong Seowon. The academy was founded in 1630, the eighth year of King Injo, under the name Jonyangsa Shrine, and in 1713, the thirty-ninth year of King Sukjong, it received a royal charter and the name "Nokdong", which it has kept to this day. At its founding it enshrined only Choe Deok-ji, pen name Yeonchon (1384–1455); later it came in turn to enshrine his grandson Choe Chung-seong, pen name Sandang (1458–1491), Kim Su-hang, pen name Mun-gok (1629–1689), and Kim Chang-hyeop, pen name Nongam (1651–1708). A large number of historical documents and woodblocks are preserved there today. Among the notable documents are twenty-five volumes of the Seowon Cheonggeum-an, a register listing the names of the academy's students, two volumes of the Seowon Seojae Yuan, five volumes of the Simwollok, and three volumes of the Hapgyeongjae Bonoan, along with individual sheet documents such as circulars (tongmun), agreements (wanui) and deeds of slave donation. The woodblocks include those for the literary collections of the enshrined scholars — the Yeonchon Yusa, the Mun-gok jip and the Sandang jip — as well as the Seokcheon jip, the collected works of a scholar from the surrounding area. These artefacts form a comprehensive and multifaceted body of material of great value for understanding the history, organisation and operation, economic basis, and student rolls of Nokdong Seowon.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongam, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산