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Reports Exchanged between Guest and Host at the Investiture of the Royal Preceptor (王師) — Report of the Envoy of Investiture in Reply王師封冊客主往來狀 冊使答狀

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.

宸闈受命。將趨庭柏之陰。禪榻占書。首辱溪藤之問。感藏良極。頌詠奚殫。

Having received the command at the palace, I would go forward to the shade of the nut pine before the courtyard. Seated upon Your meditation couch You called out a letter to be set down, and to my awe I have first received Your inquiry borne upon fine paper. The gratitude I hold in my breast is truly utmost; how should I ever be done with praising and chanting it?