Giminhu Nansan Stele, Jangseong

The Nansan Stele for Kim In-hu was erected to commemorate Kim In-hu (1510–1560), who every year climbed Nansan in Maekdong village on the first day of the seventh month — the anniversary of King Injong's death — to wail towards the north in mourning. It is a general-type stone stele shaped like a hopae (an identification tag historically carried by Joseon subjects). Across the top of the front face, in seal script written horizontally, is inscribed "Nansan-ji-bi" (Stele of Nansan), and in the first vertical line is the title "Nansanbi" (Nansan Stele), followed by the names of the composer, Yun Haeng-im, and the calligrapher, Yi Ik-hoe, and then the text of the inscription. Including the title, the inscription runs to thirty-one lines in total (ten on the front, five on the left, ten on the back and six on the right), with twenty-six characters per line. The text was composed by the scholar-official Yun Haeng-im (1762–1801) and written out by Yi Ik-hoe (1767–1843). At the end there is a postscript recording that it was respectfully inscribed by Yun Jeong-hyeon in the fourth gyemyo year of the Yeongnyeok era, showing that the postscript was added and the stele re-erected in the ninth year of King Heonjong's reign (1843) by Yun Jeong-hyeon (1793–1874), who was the son of Yun Haeng-im, the original author of the inscription. The Nansan Stele for Kim In-hu, Jangseong, was erected to commemorate Kim In-hu's practice of ritual wailing in mourning (mangok, performed from a mourning platform known as a mangokdan) on the death of King Injong. It reveals Kim In-hu's deeds and spirit, and it is of historical and academic value for what it shows of the institutional history of state mourning at the time.

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Jangseong, Jeonnam & Gwangju

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료