Agugyeojido

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.1597

Category

Craft

Era

19세기

Designated year

2008

Location

성남시, 경기도— 경기도 성남시 분당구 하오개로 323 (운중동, 한국학중앙연구원)

Coordinates

37.393030, 127.052183

This is a 20-page folding album carrying a large map of northeastern border regions, reaching three meters when spread out. The front page has a table of contents, and the maps present the number of households, population, produce, military relations and geographic distances of various regions. At the end is a paper on the Cheonga yeojihyeong jeongseok uiseo (Detailed Topography of Qing and Korean Sides and Situation Analysis), jointly written by Kim Gwang-hun and Sin Seon-uk. Drawn in ink and color on high-quality Western paper, the painting-like map depicts Hamgyeong-do Province and the Russian Far East in the typical frontier map style. The two mapmakers, Kim Gwang-hun and Sin Seon-uk, surveyed the border areas over 16 years for this project, but it is not known when they completed the map. It can only be assumed that the map was made between 1885 and 1905. It is valuable material for the study of border conflicts among Joseon, Russia and Qing as well as the history of mapmaking and painting.

Location