Hangul 이수형 Hangul 도촌, 공북헌 Hanja 李 秀 亨 Hanja 桃 村, 拱 北 軒 | Revised Romanization I Soo-hyung Name Yi Su-hyung McCune–Reischauer Yi Su-hyung | |
Yi Suhyeong(1435–1528) was a Korean Joseon Dynasty's politician and Confucian scholar, writer, and poet. His pen-names were Dochon and Gongbukheon. After Sejo of Joseon usurped the throne and the loss of his nephew, he left politics and secluded himself away from society.
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He studied at Kim Dam's school, and later married one of his teacher Kim Dam's eldest daughters. In 1450, he held an ancestral government position at 17 years old. He was succeeded by sungyorang(선교랑), junsaengseoryung(전생서령), Busajik(부사직).
In 1455, Sejo of Joseon usurped the throne of his nephew, Danjong of Joseon. Angered, Yi Suhyeong left government service and retired to a hermitage in the mountains.
In 1457, after Danjong's assassination, he mourned for 3 years for his nephew. Missing his nephew, as he had since Danjong's death, he cut himself off completely from all human contact, for the next 70 years.