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Letter Sent with Wine and Fruit on the Day After the Entry into the Guest Lodge到館翌日送酒菓狀

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 32 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.

方初稅駕。未獲趨風。姑陳饋問之儀。聊助笑談之樂。庶無揮却。且許容留。

You have but now unharnessed Your carriage and taken Your rest, and so I have not hastened like the wind to wait upon You. For the present I send this to pay the courtesy of inquiry, and to add what little it may to the pleasure of Your laughter and talk. I beg that You will not refuse it, but allow it to be set beside You.