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Reports Exchanged between Guest and Host at the Investiture of the Royal Preceptor (王師) — Report Submitted to the Envoy of Investiture Inviting Him to a Banquet王師封冊客主往來狀 上冊使屈宴狀

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 0.4 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.

榮承芝檢。辱臨容膝之居。畧備茶筵。將代銷膓之飮。幸迴高躅。暫許淸歡。

In glory You have borne the rescript, and to my awe You have walked as far as a narrow house that will barely take in a knee. Poor though it is, I have set out a place for tea, meaning it to stand in the room of the fierce wine that melts the bowels. I pray You will turn Your lofty steps hither and allow a little while of pure pleasure.