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Celebrating Hangul Day – 17th century tea cup with Hangul written on it

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A teacup called Hangul ink-seo tea bowl (Hangeul 墨書茶) or Chucheolhoesimun tea bowl (萩鐵繪詩文茶碗).

This teacup was made by an unknown Korean who was taken to Japan during the Japanese invasions of Korea.

The Hagi region in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, is where Korean potters who were taken away during the Japanese invasions of Korea settled. Here, Korean potters gained fame by making tea bowls shaped like Joseon’s mug bowls. Later, the pottery here was called Hagi-yaki (萩燒), and later, among the Hagi-yaki, the shapes like Joseon’s mug bowls were called Ido tea bowls (井戶茶碗). I thought so. Nowadays, many Ido tea bowls are national treasures of Japan.

The photo above is one of them.

Original text) Don’t be a dog / Bamsal / It’s all the same / Mokji Ho Goryeo Nim Jishum / Gyeora that / Dog is also Ho Goryeo / Gaeroda / It’s like a jeu / Nora

Interpretation) Dog, don’t bark. Are all people who go out at night thieves?

(Hogoryeo = 胡高麗, referring to the Koreans who were brought in during the Japanese invasions of Korea)

On our way to meet our compatriots who were also taken from Joseon. I tried to calm the barking dog in Korean, and when I saw that the dog became quiet, I thought, ‘I guess that dog is a Joseon dog too.’ It contains the potter’s sorrowful thoughts.

It was owned by Takaaki Fujii, a collector of Japanese antiques. After his death, his family learned of the history of the Korean letters engraved on the teacup and donated it to the National Museum of Korea free of charge in 2008.

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Another one.

It is strongly assumed that this potter was from Gyeongsang-do, as the Southeastern dialect word “”Daeng-gi-da (gyeo-ra)”” was used instead of “”Da-da-da””.

This means that a potter from Gyeongsang-do was using Hangul skillfully 150 years after the creation (1443) and promulgation (1446) of Hunminjeongeum (Imjin War, 1592), and Hunminjeongeum was widely used in the lives of ordinary people, just as King Sejong the Great had hoped.

Easy to learn and comfortable to use every day

becomes evidence.

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