Wanyeong Printing Woodblocks held at Jeonju Local Confucian School

These Wanyeong printing woodblocks were originally used for printing books at the Jeolla Provincial Office and were preserved and managed there, but in 1899 the provincial governor of Jeolla, Jo Han-guk, ordered the woodblocks that had been scattered throughout the Jeolla Provincial Office to be gathered together and preserved at Jeonju Local Confucian School. A book storehouse was built to manage them in the 1920s, and in 1987 the city of Jeonju built a woodblock hall (Jangpangak) and fitted it with wooden bookshelves, an arrangement that continues to the present. The Wanyeong woodblocks held in the Jangpangak number 5,059 in total, carrying 9,830 carved pages, with a further 288 pages left uncarved. These woodblocks fall into 19 titles, including the Zizhi Tongjian Gangmok (1,775 blocks), Donguibogam (151), Juja daejeon, the Collected Works of Zhu Xi (1,471), Yulgok jeonseo, the Complete Works of Yulgok (491), Seongni daejeon (576), Jeungsu muwollok eonhae (53), Sagi, the Records of the Historian (484), Saryak (56), Honam samgangnok (1) and Juseo baekseon (1). The blocks were originally kept on wooden shelving in the Jangpangak building built in 1987 within Jeonju Local Confucian School, but they are now preserved and managed in the storage of Jeonbuk National University Museum. They are made of wood from the birch family, generally 40-70 cm wide, 20-30 cm high and 2-5 cm thick, carved on both faces; 92.2 per cent of the end pieces fitted to the blocks' edges have been lost.

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Region

Jeonju, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산