예종대왕태실(6V 39.5x27.3cm 종이에 수채 2010) 睿宗大王胎室 Placental Monument(Taesil) of King Yejong the Great 睿宗大王胎室

홍살문이 우뚝 서있는 경기전 뜰을 오른쪽으로 돌아 들어가면, 노거수 그늘아래 세조의 둘째 아들이었던 예종임금의 태실이 있다. 태실이란 왕가에 출산이 있을 때 신생아의 태를 항아리에 담아 묻어 봉안하고 표석을 세운 것으로 태봉이라고도 한다.

예종임금의 태실은 원래는 완주군 구이면 태봉리의 태실 마을에 있었으나 조선총독부시절 일제에 의하여 파헤쳐져 태항아리는 유실되고 석조물들이 방치되어 있던 것을 1970년 이곳 경기전에 옮겨와 복원하였다.

Turning right and entering the yard of Gyeonggijeon passing the high-standing Hongsalmun, there's the placental monument of King Yejong, who is the second son of King Sejo, under a big old tree. When a baby was born from a royal family, the placenta of the new born was put in a jar. And they buried and sealed the jar, upon which a stone-monument was set up. That's why it was called Taebong, the 'burial mound of placenta.'

The placental monument of King Yejong was set up in Taesil Village, Taesil-li, Gui-myeon, Wanju-gun. However, it was excavated by Japanese during the Japanese Colonial period, and the jar went missing. The other abandoned stone constructions were collected and restored here in Gyeonggijeon in 1970.