Yu Gye Spirit-path Stele and Namwon Yun Clan Jeolhaengjeong Pavilion Woodblocks

This is a spirit-path stele recording the achievements of Yu Gye, a civil official and scholar of the mid-Joseon period, together with the commemorative woodblocks for the Jeolhaengjeong Pavilion of the Namwon Yun clan. Yu Gye (1607–1664) was a disciple of Kim Jang-saeng, from whom he learned Neo-Confucianism, and was also accomplished in ritual studies and history; together with Song Si-yeol and Song Jun-gil he was counted among the Five Worthies of the Chungcheong Confucian scholars. He passed the civil service examination in 1633, the eleventh year of King Injo, and began his official career in the Seungmunwon, the office handling diplomatic correspondence. During the Manchu invasion of 1636, the fourteenth year of King Injo, he argued for rejecting the Qing and opposing peace negotiations, but when the two countries reconciled he was sent into exile. Released from exile in 1639, the seventeenth year of King Injo, he gave up his official post and settled at Geumsan Mountain to devote himself to scholarship, before becoming magistrate of Muan County in 1646, the twenty-fourth year of King Injo. In 1659, the tenth year of King Hyojong, he was appointed to a post in the Crown Prince Tutorial Office, and thereafter held a succession of offices. When King Hyojong died and a dispute arose over the correct mourning period, Yu Gye opposed the three-year mourning term advocated by Yun Seon-do and others, submitting memorials to the throne that led to their exile or demotion to lower posts. He later rose to the position of Second Deputy Minister of Personnel but resigned owing to illness. The Yu Gye spirit-path stele, housed within a stele pavilion, has a simple form, with the stele body set upright on a low, square pedestal stone. The inscription was composed in 1688, the ninth year of King Hyeonjong, by Song Si-yeol, but it was not carved and the stele erected until ninety years later, in 1757, the thirty-third year of King Yeongjo.

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Where it is

Region

Iksan, Jeonbuk

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료