Sillipjanggun Tomb

General Sin Rip (1546–1592), whose clan seat was Pyeongsan, passed the military service examination in 1567 and went on to hold a succession of offices. In 1583 he repelled the Jurchen chieftain Nitangae, who had invaded from the north, and otherwise defended the Yukjin, the Six Garrisons of the northern border, against repeated Jurchen incursions. In recognition of this service he served as Military Commander of Hamgyeong-do in 1584 and of Pyeongan-do in 1590. When the Imjin War broke out in 1592, he was appointed Sunbyeonsa (Border Commissioner) for the three provinces of Chungcheong, Jeolla and Gyeongsang. Despite his army's inferior strength, he confronted the Japanese forces at Tangeumdae in Chungju, drawing up his troops with their backs to the river and no route of retreat; when the battle ended in heavy defeat he threw himself into the Namhangang River (a tributary of the Hangang River). The tomb of General Sin Rip is a single mound in which he is buried together with his wife of the Jeonju Choe clan. Beside the mound stands a myogal, a small memorial stele, and in front of it are a honyuseok (a stone table for the repose of the spirit), a stone table, an incense-burner stone, and stone figures of a child attendant and of civil officials. The stele, erected in 1688, takes the gaeseokbangbu form—a roof-shaped capstone over a square pedestal—with a pair of coiled dragons carved on top of the capstone. Its inscription was composed by Song Si-yeol and written out by Sin Ik-sang. The incense-burner stone bears the inscription "Daemyeong Gyeongja…" ("the gyeongja year of the great Ming"), showing that the stone furnishings were made around 1600.

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Where it is

Region

Gwangju, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물