Historical Documents held at Uljin Jang Clan Gosanseong Branch

The historical documents held by the Gosanseong branch of the Uljin Jang clan number 122 items in total, including royal edicts, notices of appointment, deeds, property-division records, document registers, petitions, examination papers, official certificates, certified deeds, official orders, official dispatches, promissory notes, household registration forms, certified copies of household registers, land registers, and other certified copies. The dates of some of these documents are unknown, but most span from the late 15th to the early 20th century (1487–1901). Although the collection is somewhat scattered in character, it is significant for showing, comprehensively, not only the scholarly associations of members of this family but also broader social and economic trends of the time. Among these, the household registration forms, which show changes in the family's household composition, provide detailed information on their property, centred chiefly on the slaves they owned. In particular, the household registration forms that Jang Dong-beom submitted to the local government office every three years from his forties into his sixties vividly reveal the changes in this family's property, and are considered of high scholarly value for tracing, at regular intervals, the economic circumstances of a local gentry family living outside official office. These materials are currently held on deposit at the Academy of Korean Studies' regional centre, the Korean Studies Advancement Center, in Andong.

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Where it is

Region

Uljin, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산