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Reports Exchanged between Guest and Host at the Investiture of the Royal Preceptor (王師) — Report Inviting Him to a Banquet王師封冊客主往來狀 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 0.3 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.

光奉芝函。忽枉惠然之顧。肅張草具。佇成衎爾之歡。庶許從容。以孚傾渴。

In splendor You have borne the casket of the rescript, and of a sudden have graciously walked hither. In all reverence I have set out a poor meal and wait for a glad gathering to come about. I pray You will allow Yourself to stay in quiet, and give assurance to a heart that looks up to You as one athirst.