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Ho Mok [cha Munbu, Hwabo; ho Misu, Taeryong-noin]
(b Yangch’on, Kyonggi Province, 1595; d 1682). Korean calligrapher and scholar–painter of the Choson period (1392–1910). He belonged to the group of Korean calligraphers who, in the period immediately following the Japanese invasions of 1592–8 (the Imjin War) under Hideyoshi, attempted to distance themselves from Chinese influence, especially that of Zhao Mengfu, whose style had been dominant since the end of the Koryo period (918–1392; see KOREA, §V, 4 and 5). Born into a scholar–official family, Ho Mok became famous for his research on the Zhou li (‘Rites of Zhou’), a Chinese text of the Warring States period (403–221 BC). However, he did not serve as an official until after the age of 50. After holding a number of local posts, he became in 1675 the Minister of the Right (one of the two ministers who worked under the Prime Minister), but in 1679 he retired to his home town to spend the rest of his life teaching and writing.
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