2012년 2월 27일 월요일
SullyFanTasia: Deoksu Palace – Where Modern and Traditional Seoul...
SullyFanTasia: Deoksu Palace – Where Modern and Traditional Seoul...: Deoksu Palace – Where Modern and Traditional Seoul Meet Deoksu Palace is the place having an involvement with the Princess Deokhye and the...
Deoksu Palace – Where Modern and Traditional Seoul Meet
Deoksu Palace – Where Modern and Traditional Seoul Meet
Deoksu Palace is the place having an involvement with the Princess Deokhye and the Great Josun Dynasty where we could see all something very Korean and traditional at the heart of Seoul.---> http://modernseoul.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/deoksu-palace-where-modern-and-traditional-seoul-meet/
I here attached an address to which we could visit and see some details as introduction about Deoksu Palace.
SullyFanTasia: Coronation of Korea’s new empress leads to royal f...
SullyFanTasia: Coronation of Korea’s new empress leads to royal f...: Coronation of Korea’s new empress leads to royal family controversy - “Cited from Joong-Ang Ilbo” ▶ Yi Hae-won, who was recently...
Coronation of Korea’s new empress leads to royal family controversy
Coronation of Korea’s new empress leads to royal family controversy
- “Cited from Joong-Ang Ilbo”
▶ Yi Hae-won, who was recently restored as the new empress of Korea. By Choi Jae-young
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The crowning of Korea’s “new empress” on Sept. 29 was presented by her backers as a means to unite royal descendants spread across the country and “speak as one voice.” What it did instead was to set family members against each other as they dispute not only the line of descent but also the legitimacy of the private organization that named Yi Hae-won as empress of South Korea.
Meeting Ms. Yi was itself quite an exercise. The day of the meeting, a spokesman from the Imperial Family Association of Daehanjeguk (the Empire of Korea) postponed the interview for two hours, at a venue the JoongAng Daily was asked not to reveal “for reasons of security,” and the reporter had to wait another two hours until the empress arrived. The 88-year-old is only about 1.3 meters tall (4 foot, 3 inches) and a little stooped, but the small woman in a jade green hanbok looked composed and tenacious.
Once Ms. Yi arrived and settled herself for the interview, organization spokesman Lee Seong-joo asked the reporter and a handful of men who accompanied her to bow to her four times, bending from the waist to make almost a right angle. “That’s the right way to greet an empress in the royal custom,” he said. The other men in the room all claimed to be of the Lee clan, as was the first emperor of the Joseon dynasty. (Yi and Lee are different spellings of the same family name.) The men stayed throughout the short interview, interrupting and answering questions addressed to Ms. Yi, as did the spokesman.
“I am legitimate, no matter who says what,” the empress declared, referring to opposition to her claim, particularly from the Jeonju Lee Royal Family Members Foundation.
Meeting Ms. Yi was itself quite an exercise. The day of the meeting, a spokesman from the Imperial Family Association of Daehanjeguk (the Empire of Korea) postponed the interview for two hours, at a venue the JoongAng Daily was asked not to reveal “for reasons of security,” and the reporter had to wait another two hours until the empress arrived. The 88-year-old is only about 1.3 meters tall (4 foot, 3 inches) and a little stooped, but the small woman in a jade green hanbok looked composed and tenacious.
Once Ms. Yi arrived and settled herself for the interview, organization spokesman Lee Seong-joo asked the reporter and a handful of men who accompanied her to bow to her four times, bending from the waist to make almost a right angle. “That’s the right way to greet an empress in the royal custom,” he said. The other men in the room all claimed to be of the Lee clan, as was the first emperor of the Joseon dynasty. (Yi and Lee are different spellings of the same family name.) The men stayed throughout the short interview, interrupting and answering questions addressed to Ms. Yi, as did the spokesman.
“I am legitimate, no matter who says what,” the empress declared, referring to opposition to her claim, particularly from the Jeonju Lee Royal Family Members Foundation.
▶ Yi Won, front, and Yi Seok, back, at the funeral of Yi Ku on July 24, 2005. By Choi Jae-young
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She said is the oldest surviving child of Prince Uichin (1877-1955), the fifth son of Emperor Gojong (1852-1919). Official records show that Prince Uichin fathered 12 sons and nine daughters.
“I was born to the approved wife of Prince Uichin,” Ms. Yi continued, “I will restore the imperial culture.”
The 10th of those sons, Ms. Yi’s younger brother Yi Seok, thinks his sister was persuaded to take the title by a group of Lee family members because of her difficult life.
After Korea’s liberation from Japan, the new government nationalized the royal fortune and ousted the family from its palaces. Ms. Yi raised three sons and a daughter by herself after her husband was kidnapped and taken to the North during the Korean War. She said she doesn’t know if her husband is still alive, and her daughter died at the age of 47. Two of her sons live in the United States, where she also lived for 10 years until 2002. Since then, Ms. Yi, who spent her first 15 years in a palace, has lived in a 13.2-square-meter (142 square-foot) room in Hanam, Gyeonggi province, with her second son.
“I was born to the approved wife of Prince Uichin,” Ms. Yi continued, “I will restore the imperial culture.”
The 10th of those sons, Ms. Yi’s younger brother Yi Seok, thinks his sister was persuaded to take the title by a group of Lee family members because of her difficult life.
After Korea’s liberation from Japan, the new government nationalized the royal fortune and ousted the family from its palaces. Ms. Yi raised three sons and a daughter by herself after her husband was kidnapped and taken to the North during the Korean War. She said she doesn’t know if her husband is still alive, and her daughter died at the age of 47. Two of her sons live in the United States, where she also lived for 10 years until 2002. Since then, Ms. Yi, who spent her first 15 years in a palace, has lived in a 13.2-square-meter (142 square-foot) room in Hanam, Gyeonggi province, with her second son.
▶ Empress Yi Hae-won’s wedding at 19 to Lee Seung-gyu. Provided by the Imperial Family Association of Daehanjeguk
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“I don’t mind if my sister [Yi Hae-won] takes the empress seat or not,” Yi Seok said. “However, the family members in direct line didn’t approve such a ceremony. I was invited to the coronation, but I didn’t attend because I didn’t know who [the association members are].”
What he does mind, and what aroused some controversy in Korean society, is the way Ms. Yi was named empress. There was no prior public discussion on the status of an empire or the imperial family within Korea, although an August poll by Realmeter, a research company, did ask what Koreans thought about having a symbolic royal family. Of the 460 Koreans aged 19 or older who were polled, just under 55 percent supported the idea.
“There should have first been enough discussion to get public approval,” said Yi Seok. “When I give lectures on the history of the Korean royal family, I see a lot of people who miss the empire.” He added, “I plan to collect signatures from people and if more than 1 million want to restore the empire, even though it’s just symbolic, I will present that list to the president and ask him to restore the imperial culture and allow some descendants to live in Gyeongbok or Changdeok palaces.”
Members of the Jeonju Lee Royal Family Members Foundation said the family had already selected who should succeed the late Yi Ku, the last direct heir to the throne and the son of Crown Prince Yeongchin, the seventh son of Emperor Gojong.
“[Having an empress] doesn’t make any sense at all,” said Lee Jeong-jae, an official of the foundation, with obvious anger. “When Yi Ku passed away in July of last year, we selected Yi Won as his successor,” he said. Yi Won is a son of Yi Chung-gil, the surviving ninth son of Prince Uichin. “Such [a restoration] ceremony will only confuse the Korean people,” added Lee Yong-kyu, the vice chairman of the foundation. “Korea is not a constitutional monarchy, the royal descendant’s role is limited to that of an officiating priest and his ruling role was removed a long time ago,” he said. In Confucian custom, a woman cannot lead a ritual to honor ancestors.
What he does mind, and what aroused some controversy in Korean society, is the way Ms. Yi was named empress. There was no prior public discussion on the status of an empire or the imperial family within Korea, although an August poll by Realmeter, a research company, did ask what Koreans thought about having a symbolic royal family. Of the 460 Koreans aged 19 or older who were polled, just under 55 percent supported the idea.
“There should have first been enough discussion to get public approval,” said Yi Seok. “When I give lectures on the history of the Korean royal family, I see a lot of people who miss the empire.” He added, “I plan to collect signatures from people and if more than 1 million want to restore the empire, even though it’s just symbolic, I will present that list to the president and ask him to restore the imperial culture and allow some descendants to live in Gyeongbok or Changdeok palaces.”
Members of the Jeonju Lee Royal Family Members Foundation said the family had already selected who should succeed the late Yi Ku, the last direct heir to the throne and the son of Crown Prince Yeongchin, the seventh son of Emperor Gojong.
“[Having an empress] doesn’t make any sense at all,” said Lee Jeong-jae, an official of the foundation, with obvious anger. “When Yi Ku passed away in July of last year, we selected Yi Won as his successor,” he said. Yi Won is a son of Yi Chung-gil, the surviving ninth son of Prince Uichin. “Such [a restoration] ceremony will only confuse the Korean people,” added Lee Yong-kyu, the vice chairman of the foundation. “Korea is not a constitutional monarchy, the royal descendant’s role is limited to that of an officiating priest and his ruling role was removed a long time ago,” he said. In Confucian custom, a woman cannot lead a ritual to honor ancestors.
▶ Prince Uichin. Provided by the Imperial Family Association of Daehanjeguk
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“The direct descendants of the empire had a family meeting right after the news that Yi Ku passed away, and decided to have Yi Won entered in the family register of Yi Ku as a son,” said the vice chairman. “We just followed their decision.”
That family meeting is in itself controversial. The vice chairman said that both Ms. Yi and her younger brother, as imperial family members, attended the meeting. Yi Seok and Yi Hae-won, however, told the JoongAng Daily that not only were they not at the meeting, they were not even aware of it. “Adopting a son after death doesn’t make any sense,” Yi Seok said angrily by phone.
“I heard that Crown Princess Yi Bang-ja [the wife of Crown Prince Yeongchin] wrote a will before she died, and in it she named me as first successor,” he added. He said Kim Sang-ryeol, who was close to the Crown Princess, is in possession of that will. Mr. Kim, however, refused to confirm what the will contained, but said he plans to reveal its contents to the public someday.
Added to all the infighting, the legitimacy of those calling themselves the Imperial Family Association of Daehanjeguk is unclear. Although its members say that they are close relatives of the royal family, they are not listed in the direct imperial family records.
The association is now preparing a residence and office for Ms. Yi in a building near Seoul Station, using two floors with a total area of about 396 square meters. The spokesman said that the building owner is also a member of the organization, and supports the Empire of Korea.
“We’re not asking the government to financially support us. We’ll raise funds from supporters of the royal family,” Mr. Lee said. “But as the empress is old, we don’t have much time to restore the royal tradition and legitimacy, which will contribute to the development of Korea’s history and culture,” he added.
The last words the empress spoke during the interview only added to the questions one might have about the association. “They treat me like a puppet,” she said as she took her leave.
That family meeting is in itself controversial. The vice chairman said that both Ms. Yi and her younger brother, as imperial family members, attended the meeting. Yi Seok and Yi Hae-won, however, told the JoongAng Daily that not only were they not at the meeting, they were not even aware of it. “Adopting a son after death doesn’t make any sense,” Yi Seok said angrily by phone.
“I heard that Crown Princess Yi Bang-ja [the wife of Crown Prince Yeongchin] wrote a will before she died, and in it she named me as first successor,” he added. He said Kim Sang-ryeol, who was close to the Crown Princess, is in possession of that will. Mr. Kim, however, refused to confirm what the will contained, but said he plans to reveal its contents to the public someday.
Added to all the infighting, the legitimacy of those calling themselves the Imperial Family Association of Daehanjeguk is unclear. Although its members say that they are close relatives of the royal family, they are not listed in the direct imperial family records.
The association is now preparing a residence and office for Ms. Yi in a building near Seoul Station, using two floors with a total area of about 396 square meters. The spokesman said that the building owner is also a member of the organization, and supports the Empire of Korea.
“We’re not asking the government to financially support us. We’ll raise funds from supporters of the royal family,” Mr. Lee said. “But as the empress is old, we don’t have much time to restore the royal tradition and legitimacy, which will contribute to the development of Korea’s history and culture,” he added.
The last words the empress spoke during the interview only added to the questions one might have about the association. “They treat me like a puppet,” she said as she took her leave.
▶ Eight of Prince Uichin’s children , his first wife, Kim Deok-soo, center front, and two court ladies behind her. Second from the right is Yi Hae-won. Provided by the Imperial Family Association of Daehanjeguk
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The root of the current family feud goes back to the time of Emperor Gojong, who was deprived of diplomatic power in 1905 by Japan before it colonized Korea in 1910. Emperor Gojong had nine sons and four daughters, but only four lived long enough to marry: Emperor Sunjong, Prince Uichin, Crown Prince Yeongchin and Princess Deokhye. Prince Uichin as the second-eldest son, was next in line, but as he participated in Korea’s independence movement, the Japanese government forced Emperor Sunjong, who had no children, to leave the title to Prince Yeongchin.
Hirobumi Ito, the resident general during the Joseon dynasty, took the crown prince to Japan at the age of 11 to be educated there, where he was married to Masako Nashimotonomiya, better known as Crown Princess Yi Bang-ja, who was a member of Japan’s royal family. The crown princess, who was a candidate to become Japan’s empress, recalled in her autobiography that she was chosen as Prince Yeongchin’s wife in an attempt to end the Joseon royal line, as Japanese doctors had diagnosed her as infertile. However, she gave birth to two sons, Jin and Ku. Jin died at the age of eight months, leaving Ku, as the only surviving son of the last crown prince, in the main line of descent.
Yi Ku, who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and married an American Julia Mullock, had no children. He died last year in a hotel room in Japan, leaving no clear successor.
Hirobumi Ito, the resident general during the Joseon dynasty, took the crown prince to Japan at the age of 11 to be educated there, where he was married to Masako Nashimotonomiya, better known as Crown Princess Yi Bang-ja, who was a member of Japan’s royal family. The crown princess, who was a candidate to become Japan’s empress, recalled in her autobiography that she was chosen as Prince Yeongchin’s wife in an attempt to end the Joseon royal line, as Japanese doctors had diagnosed her as infertile. However, she gave birth to two sons, Jin and Ku. Jin died at the age of eight months, leaving Ku, as the only surviving son of the last crown prince, in the main line of descent.
Yi Ku, who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and married an American Julia Mullock, had no children. He died last year in a hotel room in Japan, leaving no clear successor.
by Park Sung-ha (Joong-Ang Ilbo)
Late Joseon Princess Deokhye's life revealed
Late Joseon Princess Deokhye's life revealed
Quoted from Mon, Aug 09, 2010 / The Korea Herald/Asia News Network
She was born royal, victimized by history and died in solitude ― having lost her country and sanity.
The life story of Deokhye (1912 - 1989), the last princess of the Joseon Dynasty, is a tragedy that reflects the wretched fate of Korea's last monarchy. More than 20 years after her death, her life, once written out of history, is making a comeback in different forms and ways.
On Thursday, the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage published a book chronicling about 50 pieces of clothing and personal belongings worn by the Princess, along with 150 other Korean costumes from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. The pieces are currently owned by Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum in Tokyo, Japan.
The pieces and artifacts include royal infant hanbok garments, a dressing stand, many pairs of silver spoons, a gilded fortune pocket and a pair of high heel shoes.
It was Kim Young-sook, a traditional costume scholar, who first identified that the pieces once belonged to Deokhye when she visited the Japanese museum in 1982 as part of her personal research. "I recognized the pieces among piles of other collected costumes from all over the world; the museum staff had no idea where the pieces were from," Kim told The Korea Herald.
"It was amazingly fascinating and touching to see the royal infant clothes that the Princess wore as a child. I knew right away they were hers ― they even matched with her photos," the 83-year-old scholar said.
Though Kim had presented her findings at an academic forum in the 1980s ― while informing the Japanese museum of the same ― not many paid attention. After keeping her research strictly personal for more than 25 years, Kim finally asked the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea for support a few years ago, formally reporting to them about the princess and her items at Bunka Gakuen. The report on Deokhye's clothes and belongings is the result of a two-year joint collaboration between Kim and the government.
"I appreciate their help very much," Kim said. "It wouldn't have been possible with my limited budget and resources. The work has been very meaningful."
Park Dae-nam, senior researcher of the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, said the belongings of the Princess are believed to have been donated by her half-brother, Imperial Crown Prince Uimin, and his wife Crown Princess Yi Bangja. "It is expected that the royal couple was suffering financially," Park told The Korea Herald. "They even donated their own royal pieces of clothing to Tokyo National Museum."
Apart from the published report, Kim Young-sook has been preparing a non-fiction book of her own, assembling all of her personal, extensive research on Princess Deokhye. The book will include poems and songs that the Princess wrote while she was attending school in Tokyo, which Kim obtained during her long research stay in Japan. "Princess Deokhye was extremely talented in writing ― she was a very smart student," Kim told The Korea Herald. "Most of her pieces were about her home country and the royal palace, and how much she missed them," she added.
Last year, "Princess Deokhye," the first piece of fiction ever written on the late Princess, was published on Dec. 14. The historical novel has been doing extremely well, selling over 500,000 copies in the past eight months. It was ranked as the top bestseller in every recognized bookstore back in January. "The research part was very difficult because there were almost zero resources available," Kwon Bi-young, the author of the book, told The Korea Herald. "I'm glad that more information about the Princess is being released. At the same time, though, I am still saddened by the life that Deokhye had to live."
Princess Deokhye was born in 1912, two years after Joseon was annexed by Japan. Adored and doted on by her father, Emperor Gojong, the youngest daughter of the royal family attended a kindergarten at Deoksu Palace, established exclusively for her. At age 12, however, only six years after Gojong's death, Deokhye was taken to Japan and went to school in Tokyo. There, she suffered from bullying and cultural differences.
At age 19, she was forced to marry Japanese Count So Takeyuki. While suffering from mental illness and an unhappy marriage, she gave birth to her daughter, Masae, in 1932. The princess' life took another tragic turn when her daughter went missing, and her health condition worsened. She was sent to a mental hospital, and finally divorced her husband in 1953.
She returned to Korea at the invitation of the Park Chung-hee government in 1962. Deokhye led an isolated life in Nakseon Hall, Changdeok Palace, till her low-profile death in 1989.
"I'd like to live in Nakseon Hall for a long, long time," the late Princess wrote a few years prior to her death, when her mental condition momentarily improved.
"Brother, sister-in-law, I miss you. Korea, our country."
SullyFanTasia: The name of Deokhye of the Great Kingdom Josun
"About the name Deokhye"
Before the time we heard of the name Deokhye, we had lived uninvolved with her....But since the time we heard once about the name, we found her truly royal and unavoidably should respect her as the Last Princess of the Great Josun Dynasty...
She forgot all names and faces by the disease, but we still remember her name and the royal figure as the offsprings from the ancestors of this land.
You're the hero we should let others over the world know.... We also had a Great Kingdom.... And the Princess Deokhye.
Before the time we heard of the name Deokhye, we had lived uninvolved with her....But since the time we heard once about the name, we found her truly royal and unavoidably should respect her as the Last Princess of the Great Josun Dynasty...
She forgot all names and faces by the disease, but we still remember her name and the royal figure as the offsprings from the ancestors of this land.
You're the hero we should let others over the world know.... We also had a Great Kingdom.... And the Princess Deokhye.
SullyFanTasia: Deokhye The Last Princess of Jusun Dynasty
SullyFanTasia: Deokhye The Last Princess of Jusun Dynasty: Deokhye The Last Princess of Jusun Dynasty She was the Daughter of the famous King Gojong and was born in 1912. Later she was unwantedl...
SullyFanTasia: 1912년 고종의 고명딸로 태어났다. 1925년 일본으로 끌려가 쓰시마섬 도주의 후예인 다...
SullyFanTasia: 1912년 고종의 고명딸로 태어났다. 1925년 일본으로 끌려가 쓰시마섬 도주의 후예인 다...: 1912년 고종의 고명딸로 태어났다. 1925년 일본으로 끌려가 쓰시마섬 도주의 후예인 다케유키와 강제 결혼하였다. 조발성치매증을 앓았는데 결혼 후 병세가 더욱 악화되었다. 이혼, 딸의 자살 등 비극을 겪었으며 1962년 귀국해서도 순탄치 않은 생활 ...
Deokhye The Last Princess of Jusun Dynasty
Deokhye The Last Princess of Jusun Dynasty
She was the Daughter of the famous King Gojong and was born in 1912. Later she was unwantedly taken to Japan in 1925 to Tsushima Island, where she was forcedly given to marriages to Yuki Takeda who was the descendant of the lord of the island. Besides, she suffered from the dementia and was exacerbated after marriage. Divorce and her daughter's suicide in 1962 were still making her worse at the time she returned home to her own land at the end of life. It was not easy to her till death.
May 25, 1912, the 26th king (emperor) met his 60th birthday and the King Gojong (高宗) gave birth to a daughter with (福宁堂) Yanggwiin of (福寧堂) Bokyeong-dang. Her mother was not the first wife and gave a title to the daughter Onju instead of calling her Gong-ju, the formal princess. Her mother was given a title after her birth and the daughter Deokhyeongju as the precious daughter was treated by King Gojong in that way. King Gojong had 4 daughter in all, but all were given to death within 1 year after birth. And she became one and only daughter to him. At one place named (卽 祚 堂) Jeukjodang of many in palace, he built a kindergarten for her and she attended here.
Deokhyeongju as the seonyeo (庶女) meaning of being a daughter from the second wife, wasn’t formally recognized as the royal family by the Japanese colonial government. King Gojong had a bad experience of losing his own son, the prince Ee-eun by forced relocation to the Japan territory for an arranged marriage. So she was struggling to avoid such a second bad case of giving the princess to Japan. King Gojong tried making his daughter marry to the nephew Kim Janghan (金章汉) of the royal chamberlain named Kim Whangjin, but soon failed the plan. And the man was forced not to go out of the palace Deoksu. And the year 21st of January, King Gojon was dead all of a sudden.
In 1921, Deokhye Ongju, the princess attended Hinode elementary school in Seoul. At the time the Japanese Hinode elementary school was the place for the sons of the governmental high ranks and only a few Koreans could attend the school limitedly. Then she renewed the title from the Lady of Boknyeong-Dang to Deokhye as the title of being a princess. She was sadly relocated to Japan by the reason they say the royal family all should be educated in Japan at March in 1925. She was moved by ship via Busan to Shimonoseki [下关] and took a train to Tokyo. On her arrival on 30th of March at 8 o’clock a.m., the Lady Bang-ja Lee met her at the station. The princess joined a school (여자학습원 – this means a school for women’s educations) and was said she was always so silent and not well mixed with classmates.
In 1926, the next King Soon-Jong was very ill in bed, she shortly returned to her country with her brother Ee-eun, but finally she couldn’t attend his funeral and just went back to Japan on May 10th. At that time Japan government didn’t allow them to attend the national funeral, but let her attend instead, on the day of the next year in 1927. Her real mother passed away from the breast cancer disease on 30th of May in 1929. Then she couldn’t see her at funeral, but should be returned to Japan. From 1930, she suffered from the emerging diseases of the Sleepwalking and she was given to the place of the King Yeongchin for treatment. The diagnosis was Schizophrenia and became better next year.
In 1913 May, she married to the lord of Tsushima Island Takeyuki [宗武志] as arranged marriage, and the next year, she gave birth to a daughter named Jung Hye in janpanese name that was Masae. But the marriage life became worsen after her disease got worse. While her husband found her not getting well, he hospitalized her to the district mental hospital in 1946. Finally, she was divorced reported one-sidedly, then, she transferred her official report to the name of Yang Deok Hye in family Yang to Japan registration. She was in the hospital Matsuja for about 15 years. (The correct year of their divorce was said to 1951 or 1953, but is reported to 1955 according to the Bangja Lee’s writing “As it flows”. The only daughter Jung Hye married in 1956, but soon failed and left a will before her missing at the mountain range of Japan’s Southern Alps. But she was misunderstood as she killed herself by throwing herself to the sea of Genkai.
The process of her coming back to her own country was not easy. At the time when the president Seung Man Lee’s political state was concerning her return, her return was rejected by him. Eventually on 26th of January in 1962, she came back, but she had to make her new citizen’s registration in 1982 as of the time passed 20 years, and suffered much with loosing languages and her own disease till she passed away in her age 76 in 21st of April in 1989 at NaksunJae. She was buried at Hong Yu Reung (洪裕陵) in Keum Gok Dong (金谷洞), Namyang-Ju shi in Kyunggui province, the republic of Korea.
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Deokhye The Last Princess of Jusun Dynasty
Deokhye The Last Princess of Jusun Dynasty
She was the Daughter of the famous King Gojong and was born in 1912. Later she was unwantedly taken to Japan in 1925 to Tsushima Island, where she was forcedly given to marriages to Yuki Takeda who was the descendant of the lord of the island. Besides, she suffered from the dementia and was exacerbated after marriage. Divorce and her daughter's suicide in 1962 were still making her worse at the time she returned home to her own land at the end of life. It was not easy to her till death.
May 25, 1912, the 26th king (emperor) met his 60th birthday and the King Gojong (高宗) gave birth to a daughter with (福宁堂) Yanggwiin of (福寧堂) Bokyeong-dang. Her mother was not the first wife and gave a title to the daughter Onju instead of calling her Gong-ju, the formal princess. Her mother was given a title after her birth and the daughter Deokhyeongju as the precious daughter was treated by King Gojong in that way. King Gojong had 4 daughter in all, but all were given to death within 1 year after birth. And she became one and only daughter to him. At one place named (卽 祚 堂) Jeukjodang of many in palace, he built a kindergarten for her and she attended here.
Deokhyeongju as the seonyeo (庶女) meaning of being a daughter from the second wife, wasn’t formally recognized as the royal family by the Japanese colonial government. King Gojong had a bad experience of losing his own son, the prince Ee-eun by forced relocation to the Japan territory for an arranged marriage. So she was struggling to avoid such a second bad case of giving the princess to Japan. King Gojong tried making his daughter marry to the nephew Kim Janghan (金章汉) of the royal chamberlain named Kim Whangjin, but soon failed the plan. And the man was forced not to go out of the palace Deoksu. And the year 21st of January, King Gojon was dead all of a sudden.
In 1921, Deokhye Ongju, the princess attended Hinode elementary school in Seoul. At the time the Japanese Hinode elementary school was the place for the sons of the governmental high ranks and only a few Koreans could attend the school limitedly. Then she renewed the title from the Lady of Boknyeong-Dang to Deokhye as the title of being a princess. She was sadly relocated to Japan by the reason they say the royal family all should be educated in Japan at March in 1925. She was moved by ship via Busan to Shimonoseki [下关] and took a train to Tokyo. On her arrival on 30th of March at 8 o’clock a.m., the Lady Bang-ja Lee met her at the station. The princess joined a school (여자학습원 – this means a school for women’s educations) and was said she was always so silent and not well mixed with classmates.
In 1926, the next King Soon-Jong was very ill in bed, she shortly returned to her country with her brother Ee-eun, but finally she couldn’t attend his funeral and just went back to Japan on May 10th. At that time Japan government didn’t allow them to attend the national funeral, but let her attend instead, on the day of the next year in 1927. Her real mother passed away from the breast cancer disease on 30th of May in 1929. Then she couldn’t see her at funeral, but should be returned to Japan. From 1930, she suffered from the emerging diseases of the Sleepwalking and she was given to the place of the King Yeongchin for treatment. The diagnosis was Schizophrenia and became better next year.
In 1913 May, she married to the lord of Tsushima Island Takeyuki [宗武志] as arranged marriage, and the next year, she gave birth to a daughter named Jung Hye in janpanese name that was Masae. But the marriage life became worsen after her disease got worse. While her husband found her not getting well, he hospitalized her to the district mental hospital in 1946. Finally, she was divorced reported one-sidedly, then, she transferred her official report to the name of Yang Deok Hye in family Yang to Japan registration. She was in the hospital Matsuja for about 15 years. (The correct year of their divorce was said to 1951 or 1953, but is reported to 1955 according to the Bangja Lee’s writing “As it flows”. The only daughter Jung Hye married in 1956, but soon failed and left a will before her missing at the mountain range of Japan’s Southern Alps. But she was misunderstood as she killed herself by throwing herself to the sea of Genkai.
The process of her coming back to her own country was not easy. At the time when the president Seung Man Lee’s political state was concerning her return, her return was rejected by him. Eventually on 26th of January in 1962, she came back, but she had to make her new citizen’s registration in 1982 as of the time passed 20 years, and suffered much with loosing languages and her own disease till she passed away in her age 76 in 21st of April in 1989 at NaksunJae. She was buried at Hong Yu Reung (洪裕陵) in Keum Gok Dong (金谷洞), Namyang-Ju shi in Kyunggui province, the republic of Korea.
1912년 고종의 고명딸로 태어났다. 1925년 일본으로 끌려가 쓰시마섬 도주의 후예인 다케유키와 강제 결혼하였다. 조발성치매증을 앓았는데 결혼 후 병세가 더욱 악화되었다. 이혼, 딸의 자살 등 비극을 겪었으며 1962년 귀국해서도 순탄치 않은 생활 끝에 세상을 떠났다.
덕혜옹주는 서녀(庶女)였다는 이유로 일본총독부에 의해 왕족으로 인정받지 못하다가 여섯 살 때인 1917년 정식으로 황적에 입적하였다. 고종은 앞서 왕세자 이은처럼 일본에 강제로 데려가거나, 일본인과 결혼을 피하려고 하였다. 1919년 일제에게 딸을 빼앗기기 싫었던 고종에 의해 황실의 시종 김황진의 조카 김장한(金章漢)과 약혼을 시도하였지만 실패하였고 시종 김황진은 덕수궁 출입을 금지당했으며 그해 1월 21일 고종은 갑자기 승하하였다.
1921년 덕혜옹주는 서울에서 히노데 소학교에 다녔다. 당시 히노데 소학교는 일본인 자제들이 다니는 학교였으며 조선인은 고관의 자재 일부가 다녔던 학교였다. 그동안 복녕당 아기씨로 불렸다가 이무렵에 덕혜(德惠)라는 호를 내려받았다. 1925년 3월 '황족은 일본에서 교육시켜야 한다'는 일제의 요구에 의해 강제로 일본으로 갔다. 3월 28일 오전 10시 경성발 열차를 타고 부산을 거쳐 시모노세키[下關]까지 선박으로 갔으며 도쿄까지는 열차로 이동하였다. 3월 30일 오전 8시 도쿄에 도착하자 이방자 여사가 마중을 나왔다. 1925년 4월 아오야마에 있는 여자학습원을 다녔는데, 항상 말이없고 급우들과 잘 어울리지도 못했다고 전해진다.
1926년 순종이 위독하자 오빠 이은과 함께 귀국하였다가 4월 25일 순종이 사망하자 국장에 참석하지 못하고 5월 10일 일본으로 떠났다. 당시 일제는 덕혜옹주가 국장에 참석하는 것을 허락하지 않았고 1927년 1주기 때에 참석이 허락되었다. 1929년 5월 30일 생모인 양귀인이 유방암으로 영면하였으며 덕혜옹주는 귀국하였지만 복상하지 못하고 일본으로 갔다. 1930년 봄부터 몽유증 증세가 나타나기 시작하면서 영친왕(英親王)의 거처로 옮겨 치료를 받았다. 증세는 조발성치매증(정신분열증)으로 진단되었고, 이듬해 병세는 좋아졌다.
1931년 5월 쓰시마섬[對馬島] 도주의 후예인 소 다케유키[宗武志]와 정략 결혼하였고 다음해인 1932년 8월 14일 딸 정혜(正惠:일본명 마사에)를 낳았다. 그러나 결혼 후 덕혜옹주의 병세가 더욱 악화되었으며 남편과 주변사람들의 간호에도 병세가 호전되지 않자 1946년 마츠자와 도립 정신병원에 입원하였다. 결국 1955년 다케유키와 결혼생활을 더이상 유지하기 어렵게 되자 이혼하게 되었다. 어머니의 성을 따라 양덕혜(梁德惠)로 일본호적을 만들었으며 약 15년 동안 마츠자와 정신병원에 입원하였다.(덕혜옹주와 소 다케유키의 이혼시기에 대해서는 1951년, 1953년 설이 있지만 이방자 여사<흘러가는 데로> 의하면 1955년으로 기록하고 있다.) 외동딸이었던 정혜가 1956년에 결혼하였지만 실패하였고 3개월 뒤 유서를 남기고 일본 남알프스 산악지대에서 실종되었다. 하지만 그녀가 현해탄에서 투신하여 자살한 것으로 오해되고 있다.
덕혜옹주는 고국으로 다시 돌아오는 것도 순탄하지 않았다. 당시 이승만의 정치적 입지에 부정적 영향을 우려하여 귀국이 거부되었다. 마침내 1962년 1월 26일 귀국하였지만 귀국 20년 만인 1982년이 되어서야 호적이 만들어졌고, 결국 실어증과 지병으로 고생하다 1989년 4월 21일 낙선재에서 76세를 일기로 세상을 떠났다. 유해는 경기도 남양주시 금곡동(金谷洞)에 있는 홍유릉(洪裕陵)에 묻혔다.
1912년 5월 25일 조선 제26대 왕(황제) 회갑을 맞은 고종(高宗)과 궁녀인 복녕당(福寧堂) 양귀인(梁貴人) 사이에서 태어났다. 어머니가 측실이었기 때문에 옹주(翁主)라고 호칭했다. 양씨는 덕혜옹주를 낳고 복녕당이라는 당호를 하사받았다. 덕혜옹주는 고종의 고명딸로, 세심한 사랑을 받으며 자랐다. 고종에게는 모두 4명의 딸이 있었지만 모두 1살이 채되지 못해 사망하였기 때문에 덕혜옹주가 외동딸이었다. 1916년 즉조당(卽祚堂)에 유치원을 개설하였고 덕혜옹주는 이곳을 다녔다.
덕혜옹주는 서녀(庶女)였다는 이유로 일본총독부에 의해 왕족으로 인정받지 못하다가 여섯 살 때인 1917년 정식으로 황적에 입적하였다. 고종은 앞서 왕세자 이은처럼 일본에 강제로 데려가거나, 일본인과 결혼을 피하려고 하였다. 1919년 일제에게 딸을 빼앗기기 싫었던 고종에 의해 황실의 시종 김황진의 조카 김장한(金章漢)과 약혼을 시도하였지만 실패하였고 시종 김황진은 덕수궁 출입을 금지당했으며 그해 1월 21일 고종은 갑자기 승하하였다.
1921년 덕혜옹주는 서울에서 히노데 소학교에 다녔다. 당시 히노데 소학교는 일본인 자제들이 다니는 학교였으며 조선인은 고관의 자재 일부가 다녔던 학교였다. 그동안 복녕당 아기씨로 불렸다가 이무렵에 덕혜(德惠)라는 호를 내려받았다. 1925년 3월 '황족은 일본에서 교육시켜야 한다'는 일제의 요구에 의해 강제로 일본으로 갔다. 3월 28일 오전 10시 경성발 열차를 타고 부산을 거쳐 시모노세키[下關]까지 선박으로 갔으며 도쿄까지는 열차로 이동하였다. 3월 30일 오전 8시 도쿄에 도착하자 이방자 여사가 마중을 나왔다. 1925년 4월 아오야마에 있는 여자학습원을 다녔는데, 항상 말이없고 급우들과 잘 어울리지도 못했다고 전해진다.
1926년 순종이 위독하자 오빠 이은과 함께 귀국하였다가 4월 25일 순종이 사망하자 국장에 참석하지 못하고 5월 10일 일본으로 떠났다. 당시 일제는 덕혜옹주가 국장에 참석하는 것을 허락하지 않았고 1927년 1주기 때에 참석이 허락되었다. 1929년 5월 30일 생모인 양귀인이 유방암으로 영면하였으며 덕혜옹주는 귀국하였지만 복상하지 못하고 일본으로 갔다. 1930년 봄부터 몽유증 증세가 나타나기 시작하면서 영친왕(英親王)의 거처로 옮겨 치료를 받았다. 증세는 조발성치매증(정신분열증)으로 진단되었고, 이듬해 병세는 좋아졌다.
1931년 5월 쓰시마섬[對馬島] 도주의 후예인 소 다케유키[宗武志]와 정략 결혼하였고 다음해인 1932년 8월 14일 딸 정혜(正惠:일본명 마사에)를 낳았다. 그러나 결혼 후 덕혜옹주의 병세가 더욱 악화되었으며 남편과 주변사람들의 간호에도 병세가 호전되지 않자 1946년 마츠자와 도립 정신병원에 입원하였다. 결국 1955년 다케유키와 결혼생활을 더이상 유지하기 어렵게 되자 이혼하게 되었다. 어머니의 성을 따라 양덕혜(梁德惠)로 일본호적을 만들었으며 약 15년 동안 마츠자와 정신병원에 입원하였다.(덕혜옹주와 소 다케유키의 이혼시기에 대해서는 1951년, 1953년 설이 있지만 이방자 여사<흘러가는 데로> 의하면 1955년으로 기록하고 있다.) 외동딸이었던 정혜가 1956년에 결혼하였지만 실패하였고 3개월 뒤 유서를 남기고 일본 남알프스 산악지대에서 실종되었다. 하지만 그녀가 현해탄에서 투신하여 자살한 것으로 오해되고 있다.
덕혜옹주는 고국으로 다시 돌아오는 것도 순탄하지 않았다. 당시 이승만의 정치적 입지에 부정적 영향을 우려하여 귀국이 거부되었다. 마침내 1962년 1월 26일 귀국하였지만 귀국 20년 만인 1982년이 되어서야 호적이 만들어졌고, 결국 실어증과 지병으로 고생하다 1989년 4월 21일 낙선재에서 76세를 일기로 세상을 떠났다. 유해는 경기도 남양주시 금곡동(金谷洞)에 있는 홍유릉(洪裕陵)에 묻혔다.
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