Gongju Gwisallimangyeong Clan Samuisa Birthplace Site

This is the birthplace of three brothers known as the Samuisa, the "Three Righteous Men" of the No clan — No Eung-hwan, No Eung-tak and No Eung-ho — who died together with the Seven Hundred Righteous Men in the Battle of Geumsan during the Japanese invasions of 1592. No Eung-hwan and No Eung-tak were disciples of Jo Heon (pen name Jungbong). When the Imjin War broke out in 1592 they followed their teacher into the Battle of Cheongju Fortress and the Battle of Geumsan, where they died fighting at Geumsan. In 1831, the thirty-first year of King Sunjo, they were posthumously granted office together with a commendation plaque, and a jeongnyeo — a monument erected by the state to honour loyal subjects, filial children or virtuous women — was built on this site. No Eung-ho, then nineteen, followed his two elder brothers into the Battle of Cheongju Fortress, but on Jo Heon's orders left the camp to gather provisions for the army in the Hoseo region. By the time he had collected the grain and reached Geumsan, his brothers and the rest of the Seven Hundred Righteous Men had already died in battle; having recovered his brothers' bodies and laid them to rest in his hometown, he himself died soon afterwards. In 1892, the twenty-ninth year of Emperor Gojong, he too was granted a commendation plaque, and a jeongnyeo was built at Bancho-ri, Useong-myeon; in 1982, when the Samuisa Shrine was erected, it was relocated to its present site.

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Where it is

Region

Gongju, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물