Annals of Baekje百濟紀
1Annals of Baekje
百濟紀
Annals of Baekje (百濟紀).
2Onjo crosses to the south
百濟始祖名溫祚, 東明聖帝其皇考, 其兄類利來嗣位, 心不能平乃南渡.
The founder of Baekje was named Onjo. The holy Emperor Dongmyeong was his father. When his elder brother Yuri came and succeeded to the seat, his heart could not be at ease, and so he crossed to the south.
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與母兄殷祚, 南奔立國, 殷祚立五月而卒.
He fled south with Eunjo, his brother by the same mother, and set up a state. Eunjo died five months after he was set up.
與母兄殷祚 — 母兄 is read as the set term for a brother by the same mother. Following the Onjo tale in the Samguk sagi it may also be parsed as "with his mother, and with his elder brother Eunjo." ― translator
3He opens a state on the rich plain of Byeonhan
漢成鴻嘉三癸卯, 開國弁韓原膴膴, 天時地利得人和, 經營不日千官具.
In the third year of Hongjia under Emperor Cheng of Han, the year gyemyo, he opened a state on the rich and fat plain of Byeonhan. He had the season of heaven and the gain of the earth and the concord of men as well, and in not many days the ordering was done and a thousand officers were in place.
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羅之四十年, 麗之九十年也.
It was the fortieth year of Silla and the ninth year from the founding of Goguryeo.
4The fragrance of orchid and iris
系將蘭芷衍芬芳, 業與松竹同苞茂.
The line was as orchid and iris spreading their fragrance, and the royal work grew thick together with the pine and the bamboo.
5Called Nambuyeo, and called the hawk
後王或號南扶餘, 或稱鷹準與羅鬪.
The later kings sometimes took the name Nambuyeo, and sometimes were called the hawk (鷹準), and they fought with Silla.
6King Uija loses the measure of a king
持盈日久及義慈, 色醉聲酣失王度.
They had held their fullness long, and then it came to King Uija, who was drunk with beauty and steeped in music and lost the measure of a king.
7Su Dingfang comes down
唐高顯慶五庚申, 羅王申奏邀天討, 命蘇定方下熊貔, 水陸矢石紛如雨.
In the fifth year of Xianqing under Emperor Gaozong of Tang, the year gyeongsin, the king of Silla sent word again and again and drew down the punishment of heaven. Su Dingfang was commanded to bring down troops like bears and like tigers, and on water and on land the arrows and the stones fell thick as rain.
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擒義慈, 還京.
Uija was taken captive and they returned to the capital.
8Nakhwaam and Daewangpo
幾多紅粉墮淸流, 落花巖聳大王浦.
How many painted faces fell into the clear stream? Nakhwaam stands high over Daewangpo.
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浦以王常遊, 得名, 岩以宮女墮死, 得名. 臣因出按, 親遊其處.
The po (浦) got its name because the king was always roaming there, and the rock got its name because the palace women fell there and died. I, your servant, went out on inspection, and I roamed in that place myself.
9Six hundred and seventy-eight years, thirty-four kings
六百七十八年中, 三十四王受天祐.
In six hundred and seventy-eight years, thirty-four kings received the help of heaven.
10The people of Silla take the land in hand
爾後二百三十二, 地爲羅人之所撫.
Two hundred and thirty-two years after that, the land came under the soothing hand of the people of Silla.