Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . i{-jiii). about 30miles west of Taiku (><S[5). was uiidcrtakcii as a prccatorvoffering to Buddha for the safetyof the State. The blocks were hrststored at Kangwha (jX -^^), thecajiital at that time, but were laterremoved to their ]ireseiit restingplace. The whole form the mostperfect of the Chinese translationof the Scriptures now extant. Theblocks are of wood, each one being0 inches long, 23 niches wide, inches thick, and from G to 8 pounds in weight. 34. 34- One of the blocks. 21 Yl Dynasty (-^f^) :—Contemporaneously with the making of the printingb
Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . i{-jiii). about 30miles west of Taiku (><S[5). was uiidcrtakcii as a prccatorvoffering to Buddha for the safetyof the State. The blocks were hrststored at Kangwha (jX -^^), thecajiital at that time, but were laterremoved to their ]ireseiit restingplace. The whole form the mostperfect of the Chinese translationof the Scriptures now extant. Theblocks are of wood, each one being0 inches long, 23 niches wide, inches thick, and from G to 8 pounds in weight. 34. 34- One of the blocks. 21 Yl Dynasty (-^f^) :—Contemporaneously with the making of the printingbloclvS, .I eertain Korean ])rintecl a book entitled Pyungjung-reimun {vf-^ti&^)with movable metal type. This was about two hundred years Ixfore theinvention of movable type by Caxton and GutemT)urg in Iuiro]x;. That theeourt of Koryu (^j||S) was provided with a ty])e foundry is proved by authentiereeords, but the ty])es now extant are all those made during the Yi Ieriod(^;^1^ 1392-1910). These tyjjes are mostlj made of eopper, but some are madeof wood and some of clay. Another event of great literary importance during this period was theinvention of the Korean alphabet called iinmun (J^%.^0^ hi 14-K), in the reignof Seijong ({ftjj^). Even before this time Korea had a rough way of indicat-ing the grammatical endings in a Chinese text by making use of certaindiacritical marks, said to have been invented in the days of Silla (>^^),but had no way of writing the language independent of
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