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Reports Exchanged between Guest and Host at the Investiture of the Royal Preceptor (王師) — Report of the Royal Preceptor Submitted to the Envoy of Investiture王師封冊客主往來狀 王師呈冊使狀

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.

鳳闕深嚴。親奉泥函之命。雞園寂寞。將紆玉樹之光。其所欣榮。悉難宣剖。

The phoenix palace is deep and stern, and there You have in person borne the command of the sealed casket. The temple is desolate, and toward it a radiance like a tree of jade is about to stoop and arrive. How hard it is for words to tell all of that gladness and that glory.