Josok Choseo Changgangpiljeok

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.1670

Category

Books & Records

Era

1646년 (인조 24, 조속 52세)

Designated year

2010

Location

종로구, 서울특별시— 서울특별시 종로구

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This album contains five-word and seven-word regulated poems from the Tang Dynasty, written in the hand of Jo Sok (1595-1668), in the seventh lunar month in 1646 (the 24th year of King Injo’s reign) when he was the chief of Byeokseong-gun County. These poems are written in varying sizes of characters, and the calligraphies are bound like a book. The album is in a very decent state of preservation. The phrase at the end of the album states that these calligraphies were made in the seventh lunar month in 1646, when he was fifty-two years of age, in his free time, while in Byeokseong. Quite a few writing samples of Jo Sok have survived to today, but most of them are small samples or are included in albums containing calligraphies of many other people. This album, a larger sample of his writing, is dedicated exclusively to his calligraphies, and works included in it also bear a more faithful testimony to his style. Interestingly, his calligraphy style in this album is evocative of that of Xian Yushu.