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The 'Terauchi Collection' (寺內文庫) held by the Gyeongnam University Museum refers to Joseon-period documents returned from the Terauchi Bunko (now held by Yamaguchi Prefectural University), a collection built up in Japan by Terauchi Masatake (1852–1919), who served as Korea's third Resident-General and first Governor-General before later becoming Prime Minister of Japan, using materials he had gathered while stationed in Korea. The Terauchi Bunko at Yamaguchi Prefectural University is said to hold around 1,500 items across some 1,000 titles of documents relating to Joseon. Of these, the Gyeongnam University Museum received 98 titles comprising 135 volumes and one scroll (1,959 items) as a gift from Yamaguchi Prefectural University on 24 January 1996, and now displays and preserves them. These artefacts were able to return home through a combination of the university's active and sustained commitment to recovering cultural heritage, the willingness of the Terauchi family to donate them, and cooperation between Korean and Japanese members of parliament, and the case is regarded as a model example of repatriating cultural heritage that had flowed abroad. The significance of the Gyeongnam University Museum's holdings is heightened further by the fact that cultural heritage which left the country during a period of hardship for Korea was recovered in bulk through the cooperation of citizens, government and academia.

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Where it is

Region

Changwon, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산