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A Poem on the Name of Our Valley, Presented to Vice Director Bak, Academician Bak, and Academician Yi of the Rear Valley洞名詩呈後洞朴僕射,朴學士,李學士

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 · 2 passages · 80 Chinese characters · reading time 0.7 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 5 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.

1Preface

予所居此洞。與後洞本爲一源。由數步間有小徑歧之。故爲兩洞。予合爲一洞。計一年入。無慮千有餘石。因名之曰萬石洞。盖兆後慶也。

This valley where I live and the Rear Valley were originally of one source. Within a few paces a small path divides, and so they became two valleys. Joining them into one valley, I reckoned up what comes in over a year, and it was a thousand some seok in all. So I named it Manseok-dong (萬石洞), Ten Thousand Seok Valley. This is to divine a happy event in days to come.

Interlinear notes 3

椐

That is Geo (椐).

仁著

That is Injeo (仁著).

百全。○幷序

That is Baekjeon (百全). ○ The preface is appended as well.

兩洞源同元一洞。暫於尺步判爲歧。一年俸入餘千石。萬石爲名兆後期。

The two valleys are one in source and were originally one valley parting within a foot's step to become a fork in the road What comes in as stipend in a year is more than a thousand seok so I name it Ten Thousand Seok and divine the days to come