The line created by Assassin while waiting for the auction records in South Korea

The line by the South Korean Independence Champion, which was created while waiting for the assassination of a Japanese leader, breaks the records of new auctions in Seoul, where the vibrant country seeks to bring historical artworks.

Ann Yong-John in the south has his efforts to defend the country against the Japanese infringement, known for his dramatic assassination, the first prime minister in Japan, Ito Hirubumi, in 1909 at a train station in Harbin. Ahn shouted, “Hello, Korea!” He was also arrested, according to The Association of Asian Studies is based in Ann Arbour, Michigan.

He was hanged for killing by the Japanese authorities in 1910, just months before Tokyo joined the Korean Peninsula, and entered a very brutal period that lasted until the end World War II.

Now, more than a century after his death, the line that the line created in his cell in prison during his recent days – usually at the request of Japanese officials – draws a new attention in the Seoul artistic scene.

In South Korea, the life of Ahn has long insulted the generations of generations, which led to very popular novels and films – including a “collision” actor Hyun Ben.

Ahn was detained in his prison in prison in China for 40 days before his execution and kept himself busy writing his CV and making hundreds of linear pieces, including one requesting his prison guard.

Ahn wrote in his autobiography: “The court and the prison, saying that they want to keep my plan as a souvenir, I brought hundreds of silk and paper leaves to me and asked me to create them.” “I ended up spending several hours every day in the line, although I was not particularly skilled in it.”

Although Ahn has been assassinated by senior officials in Eto’o, the Japanese who took his plan kept carefully, and some of their descendants donated to the South Korean government, which later identified them as national treasures.

Now, more lines appear in the private arts market, as it was sold last month in Seoul for 940 million WNA (674.098 dollars) – more than three times its opening offer.

Kim John Sion, an art evaluation specialist at the Seoul Auction, said that the piece, which says “Green Bamboo”-a traditional code of integrity-was owned by a Japanese individual who did not want to get to know him, and they have done a flawless work.

“It was not installed until it was still defeated, but when we opened the case, the smell of ink is still in the air,” she told AFP.

“Declareed but ideal initial”

Japan said that Ahn was a criminal and terrorist and refused to hand over his remains. They were unprecedented.

The moves to honor Ann by Seoul and Beijing have previously tense relationships with Tokyo, yet for a short period in a diplomatic class in 2013.

In 2014, Japan criticized a memorial that was built in China to celebrate AHN, BBC News mentioned. A Japanese government spokesman described him as a terrorist after the opening of the Chinese memorial hall in Harbin, China, where Eto’o was shot.

Eugene Y. Park, Professor of History at Nevada University, Renault, The fact that his Japanese kidnappers have maintained his line “reflects cultural and political contradictions in the early twentieth century East Asia.”

In his trial, Ahn knew himself as a soldier to Korea, and he set his assassination from ITO as a military operation, and imagined that East Asia – includes Korea, China and Japan – is somewhat closer to the European Union today.

“Some Japanese may have seen him as a misleading but premeditated,” Park told AFP.

He said that his plan, which focused on values ​​such as peace and morals, “culturally resonated, even if he opposed them politically.”

“While the Japanese imperial identity was unstable, his actions revealed deeper tensions between respecting moral courage and seeking colonial domination.”

In 2023, the Global Sae-A group, the South Korea Group, bought one of the AHN line for 1.95 billion WNA (approximately $ 1.4 million).

The “Green Bamboo” piece was sold at a public auction to the LS group family in South Korea.

“We have expressed our intention to return the piece to Korea and share it with the audience,” said Joung Tae Tai-Hee at Seoul Auction, adding that the Japanese owner agreed to sell after hearing his proposal.

Lee Sang-Hyun, of the LS group, told AFP that his mother “hopes that many citizens can see this article and that it will be studied as well”, and they are considering donating it to a national institution.

Ahn became a Catholic when he was a teenager and ended his autobiography with the words of Nicholas Joseph Mary Wilhelm, a French priest and missionary stationed in Korea, who traveled to his prison to see the activist and gave him recognition.

The priest – who also baptized Ahn and was a long -time friend – was disciplined for his journey, and later forced to return to France.

“The Holy Lord will not give up on you,” said Wilhelm Ah. “It will definitely take you, so rest your heart and go in peace.”