Derauchi Gijeung Goseohwa (set)

The 'Terauchi Bunko' collection held by the Kyungnam University Museum comprises Joseon-period documents returned from the Terauchi Bunko (Terauchi Library), now held by Yamaguchi Prefectural University in Japan — a library founded by Terauchi Masatake (1852–1919), who served as the third Resident-General and then the first Governor-General of Korea before later serving as Prime Minister of Japan, using materials he had collected while stationed in Korea and taken back with him to Japan. The Terauchi Bunko at Yamaguchi Prefectural University is said to hold around 1,500 items across some 1,000 titles related to Joseon. Of these, the Kyungnam University Museum received 98 titles comprising 135 volumes and one scroll (1,959 items) as a donation from Yamaguchi Prefectural University on 24 January 1996, and has displayed and preserved them ever since. These artefacts were able to return home through the combined effect of Kyungnam University's active and sustained commitment to recovering cultural heritage, the willingness of the Terauchi family to donate the materials, and the cooperation of the Korea-Japan Parliamentarians' Union, and the case is regarded as a model instance of recovering cultural heritage that had been taken out of the country. The significance of the items held by the Kyungnam University Museum is further heightened by the fact that cultural heritage which had flowed abroad during a period of hardship for Korea was recovered in bulk through cooperation among the public, government and academic sectors.

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Where it is

Region

Changwon, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산