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Typical Confucian Woodblocks
Fourteen Eisarok (1867)
Woodblocks of the Park family in Milyang during the Imjin War (1592-1598). The book portrays how Park Kyeong-sin (1539-1594), then living in Cheongdo, North Gyeongsang Province, and his 13 family members...
Yeonggaji (1899)
Woodblocks of a town chronicle (eupji) about Andong, begun by Kwon Ki (1546-1624), whose pen name was Yong-man. It was completed in 1608 by Ryu Seong-ryong (1542-1607) and Jeong Gu (1534-1620), who was then sworn in as magistrate of Andong. The woodblocks were...
Jaesanhyeondo (1899)
A woodblock of a map detailing Jaesan-myeon, Bonghwa-gun, North Gyeongsang Province. It has several differences compared with the Jaesan-hyeon part of Yeonggaji, a town chronicle published in...
Andong Kwon Clan Genealogy (later 18th Century)
A genealogy of the Andong Kwon clan is the oldest known genealogy in Korea. (Two entries prior to this it says 3 other clan genealogies were the oldest.) These three volumes, published in 1476 during the seventh...
Hyeonammunjip (1910)
A woodblock depicting a family tree, part of a poetry collection written by Min Qi-geung, whose pen name was Hyeonam. Even though Joseon aristocrats may have already had a genealogy book, they often...
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