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Printing plates from Song of the Moon’s Reflection on a Thousand Rivers and Episodes from the Life of the Buddha (Worin ch’on-gang chi kok), Korea, Joseon dynasty. In the fifteenth century, during the Joseon dynasty that succeeded the Goryeo, a new system of writing Korean was introduced, which was better suited to movable type than the Chinese character system used during the Goryeo period (Park Seung-U, Koreana 7, no. 2, 27, permission pending).

Printing plates from Song of the Moon’s Reflection on a Thousand Rivers and Episodes from the Life of the Buddha (Worin ch’on-gang chi kok), Korea, Joseon dynasty. In the fifteenth century, during the Joseon dynasty that succeeded the Goryeo, a new system of writing Korean was introduced, which was better suited to movable type than the Chinese character system used during the Goryeo period (Park Seung-U, Koreana 7, no. 2, 27, permission pending).

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    Lol, it’s horizontally inverted. XD
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    I’m not sure, but...Western equivalent.
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Tuesday, 10th August 2010
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