Kim Sang-yong Tomb

Kim Sang-yong (1561–1637), sobriquet Seonwon, belonged to the Andong Kim clan. During the Manchu invasion of 1636 he carried the royal ancestral tablets and accompanied the crown princess and royal grandson in taking refuge on Ganghwado Island; when the fortress fell the following year, he set fire to the gunpowder stored in the fortress's southern gate tower and died a martyr's death. Kim Sang-yong's grave lies in the family burial ground and is a joint burial with his wife, of the Andong Kwon clan. The retaining stones around the mound were installed recently. In front of the mound stand a grave marker, stone figures, a mangju pillar and stone civil-official figures. The grave marker is in the unsubangbu style, a stone with a cloud-carved head and a square base, its head carved front and back with the sun rising through clouds. Though undated, it can stylistically be attributed to the first half of the 17th century. The spirit-path stele below the burial ground was erected in 1647 and is in the isubangbu style, with a dragon-carved head and a square base. It was made and sent by the subject's youngest brother, Kim Sang-bok, while serving as magistrate of Hongseong. Its inscription was composed by the subject's brother Kim Sang-heon, its seal-script title written by his nephew Kim Gwang-hyeon, and its main text written by his nephew-in-law Ryu Si-jeong (originally named Ryu Si-yeong).

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Where it is

Region

Namyangju, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물