The Textbook of Architecture

The Cabinet of Models

The site of Hanyang

Seoul’s four guardian mountains and the city wall that rides their ridges, chosen by the rules of pungsu (geomancy).

The site of Hanyang Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Korean

The rules it illustrates

Mountains behind, water before: the geomantic site. Seat the capital in a basin closed by mountains: a guardian mountain behind (north), a lower range on the left (east) as the Azure Dragon and on the right (west) as the White Tiger, a facing hill in front (south); let a stream cross the basin and a great river flow beyond.