Dangamgangingmungyoji

Gang Ik-mun (1568–1648), whose courtesy name was Gun-u and pen name was Dangam, was a disciple of Jeong In-hong (pen name Naeam), who served as Chief State Councillor. During the Imjin War [the Japanese invasions of Korea, 1592–1598] he fought in a righteous army [a civilian volunteer militia] under Jeong In-hong's command together with his fellow students. During the reign of King Gwanghaegun he held the posts of Jeongeon, Jipyeong and Jangnyeong [offices of the Censorate] and was close with Heo Gyun, pen name Gyosan. After the 1623 Gyehae Coup (the Injo Restoration), he was banished to a remote region for being a disciple of Jeong In-hong. In 1631, the ninth year of King Injo, he was struck from the register of officials as a henchman of Jeong In-hong and suffered imprisonment in the Uigeumbu [the State Tribunal]. His son, Gang Dae-su, was likewise appointed Jeongeon through Jeong In-hong's support, but was later exiled to Hongcheon for trying to save Jeong On, who had submitted the Gapin memorial. According to the Brief Factual Record in the Yeokyangjip, the collected works of Mun Gyeong-ho, after the Gyehae Coup, Gang Ik-mun, like Yi Dae-gi (pen name Seolhak), continued to address Jeong In-hong respectfully as 'Sanggong' [Lord Minister]. He is enshrined at Samhyeonsa Shrine in Imbuk, Hapcheon. The royal certificates of Dangam Gang Ik-mun [the Dangamgangingmungyoji] comprise four documents: a baekpae, a hongpae, and two certificates of posthumous appointment to the posts of Vice Minister and Minister of the Board of Rites. 1) Baekpae: a document certifying that the student scholar [yuhak, an unranked Confucian scholar] Gang Ik-mun passed the jinsa examination [a licentiate degree qualifying holders for the higher civil service examination] in thirteenth place of the third class, in the fourth month of the seventeenth year of the Wanli reign [a Ming dynasty reign era] (1589). It is written in ink on mulberry-bark paper measuring 40 cm wide and 102 cm long. 2) Hongpae: a document certifying that the jinsa graduate Gang Ik-mun passed the munkwa civil service examination in ninth place of the third class [byeonggwa], on the thirteenth day of the tenth month of the thirty-fourth year of the Wanli reign (1606). It is written in ink on mulberry-bark paper measuring 54 cm wide and 89 cm long. 3) Two certificates of posthumous appointment: issued on the nineteenth and twenty-ninth days of the fifth month of the fifth year of the Shunzhi reign [a Qing dynasty reign era] (1648), these certify that, in accordance with the Gyeongguk daejeon [the National Code], Gang Ik-mun was posthumously granted official rank because he was the father of Gang Dae-su, who had been ranked first class among the Yeongguk Wonjong Gongsin [Deputy Meritorious Subjects for Stabilising the Realm]. Both documents are written in ink on mulberry-bark paper measuring 86 by 61 cm. Dangam Gang Ik-mun and his son Hansa Gang Dae-su, as members of the Nammyeong school as well as disciples of Jeong In-hong (pen name Naeam), played a remarkable role both in central government and in their home region. The baekpae, hongpae and certificates of posthumous appointment relating to Gang Ik-mun are accordingly very important historical materials.

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Hapcheon, Gyeongnam

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료