Okcheonjaesa Ritual House of the Andong Gwon Clan, Yeongdeok

About this place

A two-story pavilion building of the Joseon period, also called Hwasuru, its cultural-heritage name is Okcheonjaesa. Okcheonjaesa is a ritual house (jaesa) built to carry out the grave rites for Gwon Hui-eon, the great-grandson of Gwon Chaek, the ancestor who first settled in Yeonghae for the Andong Gwon clan; this pavilion is said to have been built by his five sons in 1676 (the 2nd year of King Sukjong). Hwasuru, the pavilion of Okcheonjaesa, is a gable-roofed tiled building measuring 5 kan across the front and 2 kan on the side. It is a straight (一-shaped) two-story pavilion, to the rear of which an ∩-shaped building is joined, forming an overall square (口-shaped) plan. A door was fitted in the central bay beneath Hwasuru for use as a passageway, while the upper level has a central-hall-with-flanking-rooms plan, with a 6-kan main hall at its center and ondol rooms to left and right; its framework is of the five-purlin type. Passing inside the pavilion, one comes to a small courtyard. The building to the rear of Hwasuru was used as a kitchen and storeroom. ※ The above national heritage is generally open to visitors, but viewing may be restricted due to the personal circumstances of the owner or others.