Baktaeyu Piljeok Baekseogyumukcheop

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.1675

Category

Books & Records

Era

17세기 후반

Designated year

2010

Location

수원시, 경기도— 경기 수원시 영통구 창룡대로 265, 수원박물관 (이의동,수원역사박물관)

Coordinates

37.304170, 127.047018

This is an album of calligraphic works by Park Tae-yu (1648-86), a scholar-official and calligrapher of 17th century Joseon. The calligraphic works are in various sizes of characters, and in various scripts, including regular, semi-cursive, wild cursive and clerical scripts. Regular script calligraphies are in large, mid-sized and small characters. Notably, in the seven-word rhythm poems written in mid-sized characters, in regular script, Park Tae-yu actively embraces the regular script style of An Jin-gyeong (Yan Zhenqing). Meanwhile, in the quatrains with seven-word lines, written in semi-cursive script combined with cursive script, he emulates the style of his father, Park Se-dang, while also showing the underlying influence of Yan Zhenqing’s semi-cursive style. Finally, in the phrases Saji gyeokjeol and Isik hyeono, written across several pages, with two characters in each page, his calligraphy is reminiscent of Huai Su (8th century), the Tang calligrapher famous for his wild cursive writings. Otherwise, Seoyu yugui, written in clerical script, is also of interest in that it is related to ‘yukseo (six categories of Chinese characters),’ categories pertaining to the structural principles of Chinese characters. Brushworks contained in this album, highly demonstrative of Park Tae-yu’s calligraphic style, appear to have been made as study samples, although no date or information about how they came to be written or for whom they were written is mentioned.

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