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Reports between Guest and Host at the Investiture of the Imperial Son and the Princess — Report Submitted from Afar by the Envoy on the Banquet Companion's Side皇子公主封冊客主狀 筵伴行使上遠狀

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 · 30 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.

顯膺君命。將宣渥澤於天枝。叨伴賓筵。佇奉淸光於星節。先修鯉信。聊達鸞軒。

Manifestly You have received the royal command, and would unfold a thick bounty upon the offspring of the royal house. Presumptuously set to attend upon the guests' place, I wait to receive the clear splendor of the envoy's tally. First I have prepared a letter in a carp's belly, and do but send it upon the carriage of the luan (鸞).