Highlights
Petition Submitteed by Confucian Scholars in Gosan-gun, Jeolla-do, Asking for Citation to Yu Chi-myeon
- Nationality/Period
Empire of Korea
- Materials
Paper
- Category
life in society - social system - document - private document
- Dimensions
102.4x60.0cm
- Accession Number
Gu 1509
This is a letter of petition submitted by forty-four local Confucian scholars in Gosan-gun, Jeolla-do to the provincial governor in the 11th lunar month of 1902. It requests that the central government issue a citation in recognition of the exemplary filial piety displayed by a scholar named Yu Chi-myeon. It also contains the governor’s promise that the matter would be handled in due course.