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Reports between Guest and Host at the Investiture of the Palace Lady (宮主) — Report Submitted from Afar to the Deputy Envoy by His Excellency (令公) the Banquet Companion (筵伴)宮主封冊客主狀 筵伴令公行上副使遠狀

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 · 24 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.

彤陛凝嚴。光膺帝命。朱衣導引。漸卽賓閎。欣聳良多。述宣奚旣。

The vermilion steps are solemn, and there in splendor You have received the royal command; one clad in red leads the way before You, and gradually You come to the gate where guests are met. The surging of my heart in gladness is truly great; how should I ever be done with unfolding it in words and telling it?