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Double happiness

쌍희자囍ssanghuija

Doubled 'joy' characters stamped in gold leaf for weddings.

Wishes for
Joy, marriage

Gold-leaf 囍 characters on a wedding bojagi (Met 2024.301.20).

History & tradition

Chinese-derived character motif; Korean wedding goods into the 20th century

Double happiness (囍) is the wedding character par excellence. A 20th-century Met wedding bojagi carries it in gold leaf with paired phoenixes and 多男, and was likely used to wrap a wedding gift.

Still standard on Korean wedding gift wrap and 함 cloths.

Sources
  1. metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/853909
  2. munhwa.com/article/11148418

Sources for this entry

  1. metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/853909
  2. koreascience.kr/article/JAKO200806135607588.pdf