Inscribed "Hongjeong" Epitaph Tablet

A jiseok, or epitaph tablet, is a stone slab or ceramic plate inscribed with the deceased's personal details and the location and orientation of the grave, buried together with the burial. The subject of this inscription, Hong Jeong-myeong (1692–1748), was a fourth-generation descendant of Hong Woo-gyeong, who held the title Dangwonwi as son-in-law of King Seonjo. Born in 1692, the eighteenth year of King Sukjong, he was admitted to the National Academy in 1715, the forty-first year of King Sukjong, and passed the third rank of the special palace examination in 1725, the first year of King Yeongjo. The text of the inscription was composed by his maternal grandson, Baekgok Yi Deuk-sin (1742–1802), and written out by Pyoam Gang Se-hwang (1713–1791), a master of poetry, calligraphy and painting. The date of production is estimated at around 1785–1790, judging from the fact that the composer, Yi Deuk-sin, is given the title Governor of Hongchung-do, a post he held in 1785, and that the calligrapher Gang Se-hwang's official rank is given as jaheondaebu. The tablet is incised in regular script on black stone; it comprises four slabs, eight faces in total, each measuring 28 × 20 × 3 cm, with slight variation between the individual slabs. Being made of black stone, it offers insight into the manner of epitaph production in the Joseon period, and since its text by the literatus Yi Deuk-sin was written out by Gang Se-hwang, a master of poetry, calligraphy and painting in the late Joseon period, it is an important resource for bibliography and epigraphy.

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Where it is

Region

Jincheon, Chungbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산