Gasansa Temple Portrait Pavilion and Mountain Spirit Shrine, Okcheon

Gasansa Temple is well known as a site of patriotic Buddhist practice, since the monk Yeonggyu, known by his sobriquet Giheo, and the scholar Jo Heon, known by his sobriquet Jungbong, raised and trained monk soldiers and righteous army volunteers here during the Imjin War (the Japanese invasions of Korea). Joining forces, Yeonggyu and Jo Heon recaptured Cheongju Fortress and then died fighting the Japanese army in the Battle of Geumsan. In their memory, Gasansa Temple built the Portrait Pavilion and enshrined portraits of the two men there, though only their memorial tablets are enshrined today. Judging from the inscription on the mangwa (a decorative ridge-end roof tile) on the pavilion's roof, the building is presumed to have been constructed in the twentieth year of King Sukjong of Joseon (1694). It is a wooden, tile-roofed building of one bay across the front and one bay to the side, with double eaves and a gabled roof; though very small in scale, its original form is well preserved. The Mountain Spirit Shrine, a building for enshrining a painting of the mountain spirit, is presumed to have been built at the same time as the Portrait Pavilion.

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Where it is

Region

Okcheon, Chungbuk

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물