Minibamjippangak Pavilion

These are the woodblocks carved for the collected writings of Min Je-in (1493–1549), pen name Huijung, a scholar-official of the reign of King Myeongjong. Min Je-in passed the civil service examination in the fifteenth year of King Jungjong (1520) and went on to hold posts including Recording Secretary of the Royal Secretariat, Censor of the Office of the Censor-General, Inspector-General of the Office of the Inspector-General, and Second Minister of Punishments. He took a leading part in the Eulsa Purge, a political purge of 1545, spearheading the removal of Yun Im and others, and after being promoted to Second State Councillor in 1547 he worked to settle public sentiment. In 1548, when Yun Won-hyeong and others, seeking to cover up the Eulsa Purge, killed An Myeong-se, who was then compiling the official records of the affair, and tried to alter those records, Min Je-in protested that this should not be allowed; as a result he incurred their hatred and was exiled to Gongju. There he came to regret his part in the Eulsa Purge and the deaths of the many scholars it had caused, and died in exile. His collected writings were first printed before the Japanese invasions of 1592, but the blocks were destroyed by fire during the war and no copy of that printing survives. In 1610, the second year of King Gwanghaegun, his grandson Wi Yeo-im re-carved the text, and in 1669, the tenth year of King Hyeonjong, his five-generations-removed descendant Min Jeo-dong added an epitaph by Song Si-yeol and had it republished. Later still, in 1736, the twelfth year of King Yeongjo, the missing poems and prose, together with other writings and materials of Min Je-in's connected with the period before and after the Eulsa Purge, were gathered and the work was published once more.

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Buyeo, Chungnam

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료