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Thanking Jeong, the Reverend of Gangnam, for a Gift of Ten Pine Fans謝江南靜上人惠松扇十柄

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 · 40 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 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.

製自心機妙。煙峯落翠虬。遙分萬壑籟。遣作一堂秋。紺碧綾紋細。斕斒玉柄脩。感恩何處驗。滿面汗渾收。

Their making came out of the loom of the mind, and so is wondrous from a misted peak a green dragon has fallen Far off they divide the wind-sound of ten thousand valleys and make one household into autumn The blue-black silken pattern is fair and the mottled jade handle is long Where shall you know my thanks for this kindness? The sweat that filled my face is wholly gone