Sinan Confucian Academy

This is a Confucian academy (seowon) enshrining the spirit tablets of Zhu Xi and Han Ho-gyeom, whose pen name was Sinjae. Han Ho-gyeom was a Neo-Confucian scholar who always kept a portrait of Zhu Xi enshrined. After his death, disciples built a shrine called Sinansa in the 21st year of King Seonjo of Joseon (1588) to commemorate his virtuous conduct, and enshrined the spirit tablets of both Zhu Xi and Han Ho-gyeom there together. The shrine was later burned down during the Jeongyu War (the second Japanese invasion of 1597) and was rebuilt in the 10th year of King Hyeonjong (1669). In the 19th year of King Sunjo (1819) it received state support as a royally chartered academy (saaek seowon) and was renamed Sinan Confucian Academy. In the 5th year of Emperor Gojong (1868) it was abolished under Heungseon Daewongun's decree closing local academies, but it was rebuilt in 1958 and survives to this day. The buildings on the academy grounds include a shrine, a lecture hall, an east dormitory, a spirit gate, a storage building, a warehouse and a main gate. The shrine is three bays across the front and two bays deep, with a hip-and-gable (paljak) roof whose outline, seen from the side, resembles the character for "eight." The lecture hall is four bays across the front and two bays deep and is likewise finished with a hip-and-gable roof. The east dormitory, where students once lodged, is three bays across the front and two bays deep, with a simple gable (matbae) roof shaped, seen from the side, like the character for "person." Today the academy enshrines Zhu Xi together with Yi Seo, Song Gyeong-won, Han Ho-gyeom, Han Pil-seong, Gang Baek-jin, Han Myeong-yu, Song Si-yeol and Kim Su-geun, with ancestral rites held every spring and autumn.

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Where it is

Region

Imsil, Jeonbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료