Yeoju Haepyeong Yun Clan Dongganggongpa Head House

It is said to have begun when Yun Se-ju, a literatus of the mid-Joseon period, married into the Gyeongju Kim clan and first built a house in this village, the home of his wife's family. Originally the house comprised several buildings: the anchae (main quarters) together with a yakbangchae, a wing combining a side gate with the anchae, a sarangchae (men's quarters) with its own side-gate wing and a pond, and a haengnangchae (servants' quarters) with an outer gate building, making it a large residence with an inner courtyard, an outer yard beyond the anchae, a sarang courtyard, and an outer yard beyond the sarangchae. In the late 1950s, however, the towering solsaltdaemun gate and the haengnangchae collapsed when the Cheongmicheon Stream flooded, and in 1963 the sarangchae was destroyed by fire, leaving only its foundation stones for some time. The outer haengnangchae and the sarangchae have recently been rebuilt. A ridge-raising inscription survives in the daecheong of the anchae, recording the date as the sinchuk year, from which the house is presumed to have been built in 1901. The house's most distinctive feature is the passage leading to the sarangchae by way of a toetmaru, a narrow wooden-floored porch, in front of the geonneonbang, a side room of the square, mija-shaped anchae. Although the spaces for men and women are kept separate, as the inner courtyard and the sarang courtyard, the layout was devised so that movement between them was convenient in everyday life. It is also notable that, despite the large scale of the anchae and sarangchae, the latter even furnished with a numaru, a raised wooden-floored pavilion, befitting an upper-class house, no separate shrine building was built; instead, a room serving the function of a shrine, housing the ancestral spirit tablets, was placed in a wing of the residential quarters. In this way the house appears to consist of a seemingly closed, square-shaped anchae and a sarangchae that stands apart and displays hierarchy, yet the close connection of circulation routes and the emphasis on practical everyday use reflect the general trend of houses of the late Joseon period.

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Where it is

Region

Yeoju, Gyeonggi

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료