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Pahanjip (Jottings to Break Idleness)破閑集

Yi Illo · Written around 1220 · printed in 1260 · Korea · 3 volumes · 16,730 Chinese characters

The oldest collection of talk about poetry left by a man of letters of Goryeo. It is neither a history nor a classic, but the doings of people. A man who chanted in torment until the evening was spent to win a single line; a friend who traded his concubine for an ox to escape his wife's jealousy; a search for Cheonghak Valley that went into Mount Jiri and never found it; Kim Hwangwon, who climbed the pavilion at the Western Capital, got only two lines, and came down weeping — seventy-six short entries run on one after another. The Cheongwan temple, where Kim Yusin cut down his horse, and the tale of Choe Chiwon vanishing on Mount Gaya are here too.

All 3 volumes and 76 entries fully translated. The only unit of division is the volume, and the entries have no names of their own, so rather than inventing titles that are not there, a volume was taken as an entry and an entry as a paragraph, as with the Shishuo Xinyu. The graph counts were matched against the source text volume by volume, and all three volumes were confirmed to differ by not a single graph. At the three places that look like keying errors in the source text (三霜楚戶점, 三子聯｣珠, and 林舊俗 at the opening), the original is left as the source text has it and the sense was construed only in the translation.

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