Ssanggyesa Iljumun Gate, Hadong

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.2235

Category

Architecture

Era

조선시대

Designated year

2023

Location

하동군, 경상남도— 경상남도 하동군 쌍계사길 59 (화개면)

Coordinates

35.228800, 127.589200Museum-based location

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Hadong Ssanggye Temple's Single-Pillar Gate was constructed in 1641 (Injo 19th year) as documented in the "Historical Record of Yeongnam Hadong Ssanggye Temple" (Yeongnam Hadong-bu Ssanggye-sa Sagjeok-gi). The gate displays two commemorative plaques: the frontal facade features "Mount Samshin Ssanggye Temple" (Samshin-san Ssanggye-sa), with the rear inscription "Grand Zen Monastery" (Seonjong Daegaram). These plaques represent the calligraphic work of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century notable painter Haegang Kim Gyujin (1868-1933). Hadong Ssanggye Temple's Single-Pillar Gate comprises a single-bay overlapping-eave hip-and-gable-roof structure. The frontal curved-beam configuration supports five bracket members, with the overall structure incorporating fourteen bracket members utilizing multiple-bracket system designs. The lateral curved-beam and roof-support configurations employ extended beam-members relative to the building scale, creating a comparatively expansive lateral structure. Auxiliary columns reinforce the primary pillars at four cardinal locations: both lateral sides and front-and-rear curved-beam corners. Ssanggye Temple's single-pillar gate benefits from well-preserved monastic complex arrangements featuring the sequential alignment of the single-pillar gate, Vajra Gate (Geumgang-mun), and Four Heavenly Kings Gate (Sacheonwang-mun) along the central processional axis, exemplifying mountain temple complex spatial organization. The gate preserves late-Joseon multiple-bracket architectural techniques, representing an important regional structure within the Jirisan mountain range architectural heritage.

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