| Yi
Nam-gyu House (mid 19th century onward) other
sites in Chungnam |
Yesan, Korea |
Click to enlarge aerial view drawn by Tim Ciccone, copyright 2003 |
Click for axonometric of interior space drawn by Tim Ciccone, copyright 2003 |
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This house was first built in 1637 by Yi Gu, an ancestor of Yi Namgyu (1855-1907) ten generations back. Yi Namgyu was a highly virtuous and learned scholar who held positions in the government before he resigned in protest against the assassination of Queen Min and went to live in this country home. When the protectorate treaty with Japan was signed in 1905, he appealed to King Gojong (1863-1907) to punish those involved. However, on a complaint from a pro-Japanese society, the Iljinhoe, he was arrested by the Japanese police and while being taken away, he and his son committed suicide near Pyeongjae, Asan. This house consists of a men's quarter and a women's quarter which is laid out in a square. The women's quarter includes a room with two heated floors, one with a wooden floor and a verandah. The house has single-layer eaves and a half-gabled and half-hipped roof, except the left edges of the women's quarter which is gabled and the eaves in front of the hall which are double-layered to keep off the rain.
This site is designated Chungcheongnamdo cultural property #68.
Site plan of Yi Nam-gyu house. Click
on an arrow for a specific view:
Plan copyright 2002-2003 ATA
Laboratory, Daejeon, Korea. Measured and drawn in August, 2002 by
the ATA team (including Tim Ciccone).
Bibliography:
All images
copyright 2003 Tim Ciccone. Photographed in August, 2002.
http://arch.hannam.ac.kr/~hpw/title.htm
Cultural Properties Administration.
ATA Laboratory, Daejeon, Korea.