Beomeosa Temple Mokjeeopiintong

This is a late-Joseon intong, a seal case, held at Beomeosa Temple. It consists of a body close to square in shape and a hipped (ujingak-style) lid that appears trapezoidal when viewed from the front. Its basic frame is of wood, its surface wrapped in eopi, fish skin, with each corner finished in brass fittings. On the front, set against a background filled with incised scrollwork (dangcho) patterns and a bosanghwa (lotus-arabesque flower) design, there is a staple-and-ring fitting, and the two incised characters 信印 ("trust seal") are attached in the spaces to either side of it. There are also bosanghwa-shaped corner clamps at two points on the lower body; on the left and right sides there is a bow-shaped handle above and a ㄷ-shaped handle below; and two hinges are fitted to the back. On the knob of the lid, three petal-shaped plates are set beneath a thirteen-sided, jewel-shaped (bojuhyeong) handle. The Beomeosa wooden fish-skin intong, with its boldly incised scrollwork fittings, retains the original form of an intong in its own right, making it a valuable example of the finest elaborate Buddhist craftsmanship of the late Joseon period. It is also a rare surviving instance of a Buddhist craft object made in the late Joseon period at a great temple (daechal) of long history, a type of object that has only occasionally come down to us.

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Where it is

Region

Geumjeong-gu, Busan

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료