Panmok held at Sosuseowon Confucian Academy

The panmok (printing woodblocks) held at Sosuseowon Confucian Academy number 902 in total: 229 blocks of the Jukgyeji, 661 of the Chuwonrok, 4 of the Garye eonhae, and 8 of the Yukseonsaeng Yugo. The Jukgyeji is a compilation of records concerning Baegundong Seowon, edited and published in 1544, the 39th year of King Jungjong and the year after Ju Se-bung founded the academy, gathering together the circumstances of its establishment up to that time; because the original set of blocks was scattered and apparently restored later, a considerable number of duplicate blocks survive. The Chuwonrok records the affairs of the ancestors of the Sunheung An clan centred on An Hyang; since no printed copy is known to have survived, the woodblocks themselves are of even greater importance. The Garye eonhae is a Korean-language translation (eonhae) of Zhu Xi's Garye (Book of Family Rites) made by Sin Sik (1551–1623); so much of it has been lost that only the blocks for the preface remain. The Yukseonsaeng Yugo was compiled in 1658, the 9th year of King Hyojong, by Bak Sung-go, the seventh-generation descendant of Bak Paeng-nyeon, who gathered the surviving writings of the Sayuksin, the six ministers martyred for their loyalty to the deposed King Danjong — Seong Sam-mun, Bak Paeng-nyeon, Ha Wi-ji, Yu Seong-won, Yi Gae and Yu Eung-bu; most of it has since been lost, with only a portion surviving. The woodblocks held at Sosuseowon were for the most part produced in the mid-17th century.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산