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The 'Terauchi Collection' (寺內文庫) held by the Kyungnam University Museum refers to Joseon-period documents returned from the Terauchi Bunko (now held by Yamaguchi Prefectural University), a collection that Terauchi Masatake (寺內正毅, 1852–1919) — who served as Joseon's third Resident-General and first Governor-General, and later as Prime Minister of Japan — established in Japan using material he had gathered during his time in Korea. The Terauchi Bunko at Yamaguchi Prefectural University in Japan is said to hold around 1,500 items across some 1,000 titles of material relating to Korea. On 24 January 1996, the Kyungnam University Museum received as a donation from Yamaguchi Prefectural University 98 titles comprising 135 volumes and one scroll (1,959 items in total) from among this material, and these are now on display and in storage there. These artefacts were able to return home through a combination of the Kyungnam University authorities' active and sustained commitment to recovering cultural heritage, the willingness of the Terauchi family to donate the material, and cooperation through the Korea-Japan Parliamentarians' Union, and the case is regarded as a model example of the recovery of cultural heritage that had been taken out of the country. The significance of the objects held by the Kyungnam University Museum is heightened by the fact that cultural heritage which had flowed overseas during a difficult period for Korea was recovered in bulk through cooperation among civil society, government and academia.

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Where it is

Region

Changwon, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산