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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 · 84 Chinese characters · reading time 0.8 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.

野性麤踈孰肯容。唯公能以好而籠。與斟芳酒風流暢。許聽哀絃骨肉融。羨却君顔猶孺子。直於人世作仙翁。如非日嚥神丸絳。應爲時看笑頰紅。百歲消磨碁局上。萬錢拋擲酒盃中。兩家來往何曾憚。子宅峰西我寄東。

Who would take in a rough, slovenly, rustic nature? You alone cage me with your liking Pouring flowering wine together, our high spirits unfold and you let me hear the plaintive strings, so bone and flesh melt I envy you that your face is still like a child's you have become an immortal old man in the very world of men If you do not swallow the immortals' red pill every day it must be why I see now and then the red of your laughing cheeks A hundred years worn away on the go board ten thousand nyang flung into the wine cup When have I ever minded going back and forth between our two houses? Your house is west of the peak, and I live tucked in on the east

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二首

Two poems.

予前者飮君家。君彈琴勸之。

When I drank at your house the other day, you played the geomungo and pressed me to drink.

君至今鬢未班。顔色亦澤。故云。

To this day the hair at your temples has not gone white and your complexion is glossy; hence these words.

指家妓。

This refers to the courtesans of his house.