Gim Embroidered Tomb

Kim Ja-su (pen name Sangchon; dates unknown) was a civil official of Goryeo belonging to the Gyeongju Kim clan. As the political situation worsened at the end of Goryeo, he relinquished all his offices and withdrew into seclusion in his hometown of Andong. After the founding of Joseon, King Taejong summoned him to serve as Minister of Punishments, but he declined to take office; leaving instructions to his descendants never to erect a stone monument for him, he then took his own life. The tomb consists of a single mound. Before the burial mound stand a spirit-seat stone, a stone figure, and an incense-burner stone, with a stone lantern in front of these; to either side stand a pair of stone rams and a pair of spirit-pillar stones, together with two pairs of civil-official stone figures. Stylistically, the smaller civil-official figures beside the stone figure date from the early Joseon period, while the larger civil-official figures, the incense-burner stone, and the spirit-pillar stones are works of the late Joseon period. The stone lantern and stone rams were erected in recent times. The sindobi, a memorial stele set up beside the path to the tomb, bears an inscription composed by Chae Yu-hu and written out by Yun Yong-gu (1853–1939), with its seal-script title written by Kim Mun-je, a seventeenth-generation descendant.

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Where it is

Region

Gwangju, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물