Goewonseonghoerok

The Goewonseonghoerok is an album combining poetry and painting: it depicts the scene of a literary gathering (ahoe) of relatives of the same clan and compiles the poems exchanged there. The cover bears the title 'Goewonseonghoerok' written in ink. It records, in order: a preface to the Goewonseonghoerok written on the sixteenth day of the sixth month of the eulmyo year by Kim Jae-jung, who went by the name Goewon-juin ('Master of Goewon') and led the gathering; a single painted scene; an account of the painting by Kim Jae-geung; a postscript to that account by Namgung Sun; and a description of the gathering's painting by Han Sang-rin. This is followed by a set of linked poems composed by drawing lots for rhymes at the late gathering at Goewon (in order: Kim Jae-jung, Yi Yong-jun, Kim Jae-geung, Yi Yong-jun, Kim Jae-geung, Kim Jae-jung, Yi In-myeong and Han Sang-rin); a further set of poems matching the rhymes of the Goewon gathering (in order: Kim Gi-seok, known as Gongjaksan-gwan; Kim Gi-do, known as Hansongjae; Kim Gi-ro, known as Wonbuk; Han Chwi-seon; Sim No-su; and Kim Gi-seung); a colophon by Kim Gi-seok on the gathering at the western study by the mountain-rain pavilion; and, added later, matching-rhyme poems by Park Rae-hak, Jo Sang-u, Heo Beom, Hong Bong-hak, Yi Si-yeong, Jo Yeong-gyo and Go Geun-hwa. Those who gathered at Goewon that day were Kim Jae-jung, Kim Jae-geung, Namgung Sun, Yi Yong-jun, Han Sang-rin, Han Chwi-seon, Kim Gi-seok, Kim Gi-do, Kim Gi-ro, Kim Gi-seung, Sim No-su and Yi In-myeong. According to the Samabangmok (Roster of Licentiate Examination Passers), Kim Jae-jung (1804-?) and Kim Jae-geung (1815-?) were cousins of the Gwangsan Kim clan who lived in Hongcheon, Gangwon-do. Goewon-juin Kim Jae-jung passed the jinsa examination in 1837, while Kim Jae-geung did not pass it until 1859. Kim Gi-ro was Kim Jae-geung's father and had served as a chambong (junior officer) at the Changneung royal tomb; Kim Gi-seung was Kim Jae-geung's uncle. Following the precedent of the story of the Elegant Gathering in the Western Garden, Kim Jae-jung is said to have commissioned a painter to depict the scene of the gathering and compiled the participants' matching-rhyme poems into a single volume. The gathering took place in the summer of the eulmyo year, and the album was made at the same time. Judging from the birth years of Kim Jae-jung and Kim Jae-geung and from the style of the painting, the eulmyo year is presumed to be 1855, the sixth year of King Cheoljong. The painting is attributed to 'the skilled painter Im Chi-hoe,' thought to have been a professional artist active in the provinces. It depicts the participants shooting arrows, playing baduk (Go) or conversing, arranged within a composition of near, middle and far ground laid out in a zigzag ('之'-shaped) pattern. With its sloping terrain, soft rounded hills, hemp-fibre and pepper-seed-dot brush textures, trees drawn in the manner of painting manuals, and light colour wash, it is a typical example of the Southern School painting style. The proportions between mountains, trees, figures and houses are not accurate, but the pavilion at the right of the picture, the sloping terrain of Goewon and the cluster of houses around it suggest an intention to capture the actual surrounding landscape of Goewon. The figures are depicted only in outline, but their identities can be established from Kim Jae-geung's account of the gathering. This is an album of poetry and painting depicting a literary gathering formed in the mid-19th century around relatives of the Gwangsan Kim clan living in Hongcheon, Gangwon-do. Although the painting itself is not of a high standard, it is valuable for showing that its participants were centred on the relatives of a single village, for revealing the character of literary gatherings among provincial scholars, and for including the work of a newly identified provincial painter.

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Where it is

Region

Seongbuk-gu, Seoul

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산