This painting from the mid-Joseon Dynasty commemorates an official gathering of the members of the Saganwon (司諫院), sometimes known as Miwon (薇垣), one of the three principal government offices of the Joseon Dynasty. Saganwon is known as the “Office of Censors,” but contrary to what we might expect today, these officials were not responsible for censoring the citizens; they were charged with monitoring the actions and decrees of the king, to make sure that they were in best interests of the nation. The artist of this work strongly privileged the “background” landscape, allowing it to fill almost the entire space, such that the actual scene of the meeting is basically reduced to a symbol. This style is characteristic of early Joseon paintings that commemorate gatherings of the literati class or the officials. The depiction of the meeting itself is rather small, but it appears to a jovial gathering, since some pots of wine are visible. Several of the visual motifs are known to have been favored by An Gyeon, the famed and highly influential painter of the early Joseon, including the composition, with mountains and hills arranged in one corner of the painting; the ample use of short lines and dots to depict the mountain peaks; and the presence of twin pines. The title at the top is rendered in “Seal Script,” a distinctive style of calligraphy, and the writing below that is the postscript, written by Seong Se-chang, which includes the date mark of “gajeong gyeongja jungchun” (嘉靖庚子仲春), identifying the year as 1540. Finally, the lower half of the work contains the names of the seven participants, listed according to their ranks in the office: Yu In-suk (柳仁淑), Hong Chun-gyeong (洪春卿), Yi Myeong-gyu (李名珪), Na Se-chan (羅世纘), Yi Hwang (李滉), Kim ? (金 ?, the first name is not legible), and Yi Yeong-hyeon (李英賢).