Yeongmorok and Bagin Mumindangjip Woodblocks

Yeongmorok Woodblocks — Overview: These woodblocks total twenty-four sheets on twelve blocks, comprising seventeen sheets of the original compilation and seven sheets of supplementary material. Each block measures roughly 52.5 cm in width, 27 cm in height and 2 cm in thickness, with a printed text frame (gwangwak) of 32.5 by 20 cm. Yeongmorok was compiled in 1627 by Bak In (pen name Mumindang, 1583–1640), who arranged the surviving writings and appended texts of his father, Bak Su-jong (pen name Jogye, 1565–1619). Running to only twenty-four sheets, it is a slim volume even as a single book, and unlike a formal literary collection it does not foreground its compiler's pen name, suggesting it was made not to be shown to others but to be handed down within the family. Four pieces of the father's surviving writing appear at the front, followed in order by twenty-one elegies, seven memorial addresses and an epitaph. The authorship and content of the elegies and memorial addresses in this appendix show that Bak Su-jong, as the cousin-in-law and a disciple of Jeong In-hong (pen name Naeam), maintained very close ties with Naeam's other disciples. Although the book is short and its subject not a figure of great historical stature, it is an extremely rare source for understanding the trends within the Nammyeong school after the Injo Restoration. Mumindang Seonsaeng Munjip Woodblocks — Overview: A preface written in the first month of 1790 (the twenty-second year of King Jeongjo) by Jeong Jong-ro (pen name Ipjae), together with a postscript written in the seventh month of 1814 by Bak Seong-rim, Mumindang's fifth-generation descendant, indicate that preparations for publication began around 1790 and that the woodblocks were completed around 1814. The full set comprises 279 sheets on 140 blocks; all survive except one block bearing sheets 1 and 2 of the supplementary collection, and four sheets are damaged to the point where the characters are illegible. Each block measures roughly 52.5 cm in width, 27 cm in height and 2 cm in thickness, with a printed text frame of 32.5 by 20 cm. Life and Achievements of Mumindang: Bak In (pen name Mumindang) was born at his mother's family home in Yaro, Hapcheon. He studied under his father's cousin, Jeong In-hong (pen name Naeam), and thereafter lived in seclusion for the rest of his life at his old home in Jodong. After the Injo Restoration, he formed a close bond with Donggye Jeong On and Gyeomjae Ha Hong-do, together with...

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Where it is

Region

Hapcheon, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산