Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 19. (Budapest, 2000)
Ildikó NAGY: Copies of Murals from Anak Tomb No. 3 in the Korean Collection of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts
arranged in seven vertical lines from the right to the left, but four of the characters have become blurred and three of them have become disputable through the ages. The inscription tells the personal data of the deceased: his birth-place, ranks and the official functions performed by him in the Eastern Yin Dynasty, the time he came to the territory of Korea (336 A.D.) and the date of his death (357 A.D.). The high ranks of the deceased, and the scenes showing him and his milieu, reflect such privileges that could be due only to the ruler, the aristocracy or high-ranking officials. On the upper part of the Ground-Plan No.2, part of the southern wall (the southern wall is marked by the numbers 2, 11 and 12), a musician blowing a horn can be seen while on the lower part of it musicians beating drums are depicted. On the upper part of the Ground-Plan No. 11 part of this wall, military officers with the symbols of their function are marching, on the lower part of the Ground-Plan No. 12 part of this wall, a procession of halberdiers advances. The fore-part of this procession on the lower part of the eastern wall (Ground-Plan No. 13) faces north, and the figures of two wrestlers can be seen above it 6 . Three octagonal stone columns stand instead of the northern wall of the Antechamber (Ground-Plan No. 10). They have rectangular headers decorated with demonic faces painted on each side. On the western wall of the East Wing Chamber (Ground-Plan Nos. 14-18) a horse stall (Kor. magu'kan) (Ground-Plan No. 14; 111. 6) is situated while on the southern wall a cow-shed (Kor. oyang'kan) (Ground-Plan No. 15; 111. 7) can be seen. On the eastern wall (Ground-Plan No. 16; Ills. 8-9) scenes of other household activities are depicted: a coach-house (Kor. Ch 'ago), the larder for meat (Kor. yukgo), a kitchen with the big kettle (Kor. jubang) and a stove with a sidedirection stove-pipe can be seen. On the northern wall (Ground-Plan No. 17) a sweep (Kor. umul) with pots of different sizes can be seen (111. 10) while the hand-mill (Kor. banga'kan) (Ground-Plan No. 18) is depicted on the western wall (III. 11). Female figures doing their everyday tasks are depicted on these scenes but dogs in front of the kitchen or a bird twittering on the crest of the roof add their share to the vividness of these paintings. On the eastern wall (Ground-Plan No. 25) of the Main Chamber three musicians and a dancer can be seen. The western wall of this chamber (Ground-Plan No. 26) remained intact, while stone pillars (Kor. dolgidung) divide the space instead of the southern and northern walls. Along the Side Passage (Ground-Plan Nos. 19-21) an imposing procession organized according to the military discipline of the time (Kor. Banch'a haengyol-do) can be seen (111. 17). On the 10 m long mural approximately 250 figures are marching. The General himself is seated in a canvas-covered two-wheel ox-cart in the middle of the procession (Ills. 18-19). Before, behind and beside him representatives of the different services march with peaks, battle-axes and shields, archers carry their bows. Standard-bearers, drummers and musicians carrying bells together with some female figures constitute other parts in the procession. The closing western wall of the Side Passage and the long western wall of the Side-Corridor (GroundPlan No. 22 and 24) bear no picture. On the other side of the northern wall of the Main Chamber (Ground-Plan No. 23) in the height of the skirting board of the stone pillars the picture of a sanctuary (Kor. jongak-do) can be seen. In the middle of the western wall (Ground-Plan No. 6) of the West Wing Chamber 7 of the tomb the portrait of the General (Kor. ch 'osanghwa) is depicted en face in archaic style (Ills. 12-13). He is seated on a comfortable canopied wooden couch due only to the high-ranking aris-
