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

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.

乘車擁節。特宣詔命之溫。掘井盖柴。粗備饌羞之潔。庶迴玉趾。以副棗誠。

Riding in a carriage and holding the tally in my arms, I have come to unfold the command of a rescript especially warm. Digging a well and thatching a roof with brushwood, I have prepared in outline a clean and simple meal. I pray You will turn Your steps of jade hither and answer to this poor sincerity.