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 · 110 Chinese characters · reading time 1 min
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 28 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.
I report. In the cold of spring the roads are long and blocked. Far off, I think of your progress as passing well along its long road, and respectfully I gaze after you the more.
Of late the Duke of Hwanan (淮安公), after attending on Your Honor and seeing you off, came back and delivered your honored instruction. There was in it the matter of having the sea ships and the soldiers gather at Mount Seonseong (宣城山) by the third day of the third month of this year. We at once commanded the office in charge to direct the military commissioners of the Northwest Circuit, and had them gather soldiers and ships and pick out officials to lead them out. But the winds and waves of the sea road cannot be pledged beforehand, so we simply do not know whether they will make the term or not. Let Your Honor alone weigh it. Here I break off, and respectfully report.