Kim Sang-heon Tomb

Kim Sang-heon (1570–1652), of the Andong Kim clan, used the pen names Cheongeum and Seoksilsanin. When the Second Manchu Invasion of Joseon broke out, he served as Minister of Rites, rejected the peace faction's arguments, and argued for resistance to the end. In 1645 he was specially appointed Left State Councillor and admitted to the Girosa, an honorary body for senior officials of advanced age. Kim Sang-heon's tomb stands alone within the family burial ground, below the tomb of his grandfather Kim Saeng-hae. In front of the burial mound are a tombstone, a spirit-rest stone, stone figures, and an incense-burner stone, and below these stand a tomb-inscription stele and a pair of civil-official stone figures. The tombstone is in the unsu-bangbu form, with a cloud-carved head and a square base, the clouds on its front and back depicting the sunrise. In front of the civil-official figures stands a memorial stele in the gaeseok-bangbu form, with a roof-stone and a square base, erected in 1671. On the front of this stele is carved an inscription that Kim Sang-heon composed himself while held captive at Simyanggwan, the Joseon residence in Shenyang, written out in the calligraphy of his grandson Kim Su-jeung. The postscript on the back was composed by Song Si-yeol and written by Song Jun-gil, both of whom signed themselves as his disciples.

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Where it is

Region

Namyangju, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물