Daedongyeojido Woodblock

보물 · 1F · Medieval and Early Modern History · Joseon 3

These are the woodblocks Kim Jeong-ho carved to print the Daedongyeojido, the great map of Korea. Since the map was published in 1861, the blocks are believed to have been completed around that time. Carved on both sides of basswood roughly a century old, they precisely render mountains, rivers, towns, transport routes, and military facilities; when all the printed sheets are joined, they form a single nationwide map about 6.7 m high and 3.8 m wide. Of the twelve blocks surviving today, eleven are held by the National Museum of Korea, and they bear many traces of Kim's continued corrections and revisions even after the first printing.

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Source: based on official e-museum records (National Museum of Korea).