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Eight Songs on Minister Gi's Toesik-jae (退食齋) — Toesik-jae, the Studio of Retiring from Court奇尙書退食齋八詠 退食齋

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 2 The collected writings of Yi Gyubo of Goryeo, gathered and cut in woodblock by his son Yi Ham in 1241 and revised and enlarged by his grandson Yi Ikbae in 1251. It holds poems and rhapsodies, memorials and reports sent up to the king, records written for temples and pagodas, stele and tomb inscriptions, letters and prefaces, and the state letters that passed to and from the Mongols during the invasions. The Lay of King Dongmyeong, which sings the founder of Goguryeo, stands in volume 3 of the first collection, and the daily life of a man who called himself the White Cloud Layman — with his wine, his zither and his verse — fills the later collection. The book closes with the last poem he wrote as his eyes failed and he laid down the brush, and with the dirge and tomb inscription others made for him after his death.

酷着林泉妨廟算。久纏簿領損天和。唯公別占風流地。朝退時時載酒過。

To love groves and springs too well hinders the counsels of state and long being bound to documents harms the inborn harmony Only His Excellency holds a ground apart for elegant pleasure and when he withdraws from court he passes by now and then with wine aboard

Interlinear notes 1

命予名齋。其餘皆公所榜。

He had me name the studio (齋). All the rest were named by His Excellency himself.