Namiheungjanggunmyo Shrine and Surroundings

This is the tomb of General Nam I-heung (1567–1627), sobriquet Seongeun, a military official of the mid-Joseon period. The general is buried together with his wife, Lady Jeong of the Hadong clan, and his father, Nam Yu. When his father was shot dead by Japanese invaders during the Jeongyu War in 1598, the 31st year of King Seonjo's reign, Nam I-heung gave up his studies to devote himself to archery and horsemanship, and passed the military service examination in 1602, the 35th year of King Seonjo's reign. After holding a succession of official posts, he took his own life when the fortress fell during fighting against the Qing army at Anju in Pyeongan Province, during the Jeongmyo War of 1627, the 5th year of King Injo's reign. After his death he was honoured as a man of loyalty and integrity, posthumously raised to the rank of Chief State Councillor and revered as Uicheon Buwongun. His original tomb was in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, but it was moved to Dangjin, South Chungcheong Province, in 1971. Nearby stand a shrine housing the general's spirit tablet and a commendation gate erected for the loyal, together with a hall of relics displaying some 500 items that the general used. A ring of stones surrounds the base of the mound to protect it, and before the tomb stand a mangjuseok (a stone pillar set up to signal a tomb's presence from afar) and a tombstone finely carved with the figure of an itmi, a serpent-like dragon yet to ascend to heaven.

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Where it is

Region

Dangjin, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물