ABSTRACT

Karam collection. The catalogue dates it as twentieth century. This was shown in the 1947 exhibition, item 236.

COllra.Ilt, 818: --"J 0 ] -9-$*J1: Sinmi nok, Seoul block print, 32 leaves, "engraved at UlilitRJ Hongsudong, second month of the year $1"j (1861)". Petrova, 21, gives the same as in the Aston collection in Leningrad. The same was reprinted lithographically by ~!¥flit* Hannam Sorim, Keijo, 191-. Kim Tonguk, 391, gives the same information on the Seoul block print, and in Hyangt'o Soul, 8, 1960, 43 and 44, he prints photographs of the first and last pages. In both these photographs and the lithograph, the title on the first page is ~ 0 1 -9-Sinmi nok and on the last page "i:l ""J -9-Imsin nok, and the colophon is $rn=.A B Utiifil~

WT~ "newly engraved at Hongsudong, second month 1861." Several modern novels on the subject exist, but the old works are barely mentioned by any critic.