Hwangsilchugwonjangeomsu

This is a pair of jangeomsu, embroidered ceremonial banners, preserved at Beomeosa Temple. They were embroidered with text praying for the repose of Emperor Munjo Ikhwangje, father of King Heonjong of Joseon, and his mother Empress Sinjeong Ikhwanghu. They were bestowed by the imperial household in 1902, the sixth year of the Gwangmu era, when a state rite for the peace of the nation and the prosperity of the royal family was held at Gyemyeongam, a hermitage of Beomeosa Temple. Each banner is made of satin, one on an indigo ground and the other on a red ground, embroidered with gold thread and silk thread using a variety of techniques. At the centre, a seowonmun, a prayer text for the repose of Munjo and Empress Sinjeong of the Jo clan, is embroidered in gold thread, while the upper part is decorated with lotus-petal shapes and the lower part with lotus patterns, giving the whole an elaborate appearance. At the bottom, tassels are attached to both corners as decoration. Munjo was a son of King Sunjo; invested as crown prince, he died young at the age of twenty-two. After his son Heonjong came to the throne, he was posthumously honoured as King Ikjong, and under Emperor Gojong he came to be called Emperor Munjo Ikhwangje. Empress Sinjeong was the daughter of Jo Man-yeong of the Pungyang Jo clan; she died in 1890, the twenty-seventh year of Gojong's reign, and in 1899, the third year of the Gwangmu era, she was posthumously honoured together with her husband Munjo with the title Empress Sinjeong. The banners are thought to have been made sometime between 1899 and 1902, after the couple's posthumous honours were conferred, during the rites held at Gyemyeongam. They are valuable material for examining the forms taken by court embroidery of the period.

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Where it is

Region

Geumjeong-gu, Busan

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산