Baek pa sun biography definition
Mother of Japan’s Arita ware to get statue in Icheon
A statue of Baek Pa-sun, a Korean ceramic artisan who helped give birth to Japan’s porcelain production in the city of Arita. [YONHAP]
The potter is Baek Pa-sun (1560-1656). She is a legendary female potter who blazed the trail for what is now known as Arita ware in Japan.
A delegation of the Korean Ceramics Art Association in Icheon, south of Seoul, and the Baek Pasun Memorial Society will visit the Japanese city on April 29 to unveil the statue at a gallery named after the potter.
The installation of the 1.9-meter (6.2-foot) statue at Gallery Baekpasun is timed to coincide with a ceramics festival in Arita.
Ahn Seok-young, a ceramics artist in Yeoju, south of Seoul, produced the statue, which depicts Baek clad in “chima jeogori,” or traditional Korean dress, looking at a teacup in her hands.
The Gyeonggi provincial government footed the 130 million won ($121,360) bill for the project.
Baek hailed from the Korean city of Gimhae and was the first female pottery expert in the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910).
She was captured along with her husband, Gimhae potter Kim Tae-do, by Japanese soldiers during the 1592-98 Japanese invasions of Korea.
They were taken to the town of Takeo near Arita, in what is now Japan’s Saga Prefecture, in the late 16th century.
According to historical records, Baek moved to Arita with about 900 Korean potters after her husband died, making a tremendous contribution to the development of Arita ware.
She remained in Arita as the leader of pottery making until her death at age 96, establishing herself as the mother of Arita ware.
Yoon Tae-woon, 71, leader of the Baek Pasun Memorial Society, said the
Gwanghaegun of Joseon
15th king of Joseon from 1608 to 1623
Gwanghaegun or Prince Gwanghae (Korean: 광해군; Hanja: 光海君; 4 June 1575 – 7 August 1641), personal name Yi Hon (이혼; 李琿), was the 15th monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea. As he was deposed in a coup d'état, he did not receive a temple name.
Biography
Birth and background
Gwanghaegun was the second son of King Seonjo; born to Royal Noble Consort Gong, a concubine, who later died a year after his birth. He had one older brother.
When Japan invaded Joseon to attack the Ming Empire, he was installed as Crown Prince. When the king fled north to the border of Ming, he set up a branch court and fought defensive battles. During and after the Imjin Wars (1592–1598), despite being Crown Prince, he acted as the de facto ruler of the Joseon Dynasty in 1592, commanding battles and taking care of the reconstruction of the nation after the devastating wars, in the place of old and weak King Seonjo.
Although it brought prestige to him, his position was still unstable. He had an elder but incompetent full-brother Prince Imhae (임해군; 臨海君) and a younger but legitimate half-brother Grand Prince Yeongchang (영창대군; 永昌大君), who was supported by the Lesser Northerners faction. Fortunately for Gwanghae, King Seonjo's abrupt death made it impossible for his favorite son Yeongchang to succeed to the throne.
Violence of Greater Northerner faction
Before King Seonjo died in 1608, he named Prince Gwanghae as his official successor to the throne and ordered his advisers to make a royal document. However, Lyu Young-gyong of the Lesser Northerners faction hid the document and plotted to install Grand Prince Yeongchang as king, only to be found out by the head of the Great Northerners faction (대북; 大北), Jeong In-hong. Lyu was executed immediately.
After the incident, Gwanghae tried to bring officials from various political and regiona
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