Son Clan Old House in Gyo-dong, Miryang

This is the head house of the Miryang Son clan, built in the early 1900s. Known also as the "house of the ten-thousand-sacks landlord" (a term for an exceptionally wealthy landowner), the Son Clan Old House in Gyo-dong comprises 99 kan — a traditional unit measuring a building's size by the spacing between its pillars — and includes an anchae (inner women's quarters), a sarangchae (men's reception quarters), a jungmungan-chae (middle gate quarters), a lower-storey building, a shrine hall, a daemungan-chae (main gate quarters), a further jungmungan-chae, and a jungsarangchae (middle sarang quarters). With its large number of buildings and a layout centred on a courtyard, the house clearly separates the inner and outer living spaces, such as the anchae and sarangchae.

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Miryang, Gyeongnam

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료