Daljeonjaesa Temple, Pohang

Although tradition holds that this building originally housed Buddhist monks, it is now used as a jaesil, a shrine house for the ritual management of the tomb of Yi Eon-jeok (1491–1553), a civil official of early Joseon. He passed the civil service examination at the age of 24, after which he served as a section chief in the Ministry of Personnel and as magistrate of Miryang before becoming a censor in the Saganwon in 1530, the 25th year of King Jungjong. However, he opposed the appointment of Kim An-no and relinquished his office, retreating into the mountains to devote himself to the study of Neo-Confucianism. After Kim An-no fell from power, Yi returned to serve as a reader in the Hongmungwan and then as jikjehak. While serving as magistrate of Jeonju he governed so well that the people erected a monument praising his virtue. He was later falsely implicated in the Yangjae Station wall-poster incident of 1547, the second year of King Myeongjong, and exiled to Gangye, where he spent his remaining years writing numerous works before his death. He is counted among the Four Sages of the East, together with Jo Gwang-jo, Kim Goeng-pil and Jeong Yeo-chang, and is regarded as a pioneer who established the character and direction of Neo-Confucian scholarship in early Joseon. The building is said to have been built in 1402, the second year of King Taejong, but there is no evidence to support this. It is six bays across the front and six bays deep, and its roof is a hip-and-gable (paljak) roof, which forms the shape of the character 八 (meaning "eight") when viewed from the side. The building as a whole has a square (ㅁ-shaped) layout, with a railed, pavilion-like wooden floor at the rear, and narrow entrance doors on either side — an unusual arrangement not seen in other jaesil.

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Where it is

Region

Pohang, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산