Jangsu Hwang Ssi Tombstone and Muninseok, Sancheong

The muninseok (stone figures of civil officials) at the tomb of the Jangsu Hwang clan stand facing one another outside the mangjuseok (stone pillars); at 190 cm in height and 55 cm across the front, they are considerably larger than life-size. The officials' faces are well-proportioned, and the cap and official robes they wear are rendered in fine detail; the folds of the clothing and the small details of the face are depicted so realistically and softly that they look almost like actual garments and a living person. The tombstone, the offering table, the incense-burner stone, the stone pillars and the muninseok, together with the ridge of natural stones built up behind the grave, the low stone wall raised around the offering table to separate the space for ancestral rites, and the natural-stone retaining wall built below it to mark the outer boundary of the tomb, together show the typical form of a traditional grave.

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Region

Sancheong, Gyeongnam

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료