Hamabi (dismount marker)

Markers such as this one, which commanded “all officials to dismount from their horses” as a show of respect, were placed at the entrance to a palace or the royal ancestral shrine of Joseon Dynasty. Depending on their rank, officials were required to dismount a specific number of paces before the entrance, i.e. senior officials were required to dismount ten steps before it, mid-ranking officials twenty steps, and low-ranking officials thirty steps.