Haein-sa Temple in Hapchon County, North Kyongsang Province, is home to the most complete and best preserved woodblocks of the Buddhist Tripitaka. Top left: the temple entrance. Bottom left: storage rooms. Right: Some of the more than 80,000 woodblocks used to print the Tripitaka (Park Seung-U, Koreana 7, no. 2, 34–35, 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).
With almost too many great examples to choose from, I highly recommend you take a scroll through the book jacket designs of Wang Zhi Hong.
