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Reports exchanged between guest and host at the investiture of the imperial son and the princess — Report sent from afar by the Flower-Urging Envoy (勸花使) of the banquet-companion party皇子公主封冊客主狀 筵伴行勸花使上遠狀

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 · 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.

仙宸受命。將花酒以侑歡。神筆摛辭。枉蒲藤而貽問。欣榮所至。剖析曷周。

Having received the command in a palace fit for immortals, I am to aid the merriment with flowers and wine. You unfolded your writing with a wondrous brush and, to my great awe, set down your inquiries on fine paper. My joy and honor are utter; how could I ever set them out piece by piece in full?