국립중앙박물관 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF KOREA

Highlights
Ten-panel Folding Screen with Paintings on the Five Moral Rules
  • Nationality/Period

    Joseon Dynasty

  • Materials

    Paper

  • Category

    Culture / Art - Letter & Paintings - Paintings - painting

  • Dimensions

    87.6×39.0cm(Image, Folding screen)

  • Accession Number

    Gu 2248

This is a ten-panel folding screen mounted with paintings of five devoted sons and five friendly brothers. The attached writings and paintings all convey tales about good sons and brotherly affection which appeared in the Oryun Haengsildo (Paintings of Five Moral Imperatives). The painting is regarded as the work of an amateur painter. The title is written in Chinese characters at the top of the work, while the story is told in both Chinese characters and Korean letters. In order to freshen up the social climate and disseminate the samgang oryun (literally meaning “the three bonds and five relations,” the fundamentals of Confucian morality) to the general public, figures and scenes from Chinese and Korean tales were drawn. This folding screen is all the more valuable in that it was written in Hangeul (Korean alphabet).