Bak Jiwon 朴趾源
prose writer · Joseon Korea · 1737–1805
Known as Yeonam. A prose writer of late Joseon who gave up the examinations to write. After a journey to Qing China he wrote the Jehol Diary.
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Whom did my brother's face and beard resemble? Whenever I missed our father, I looked at my brother. Now that I miss my brother, where shall I see him? I put on my cap and robe and go to look at myself in the stream.
我兄顔髮曾誰似 每憶先君看我兄
今日思兄何處見 自將巾袂映溪行Yeonam jip, book 4, "At Yeonam, Remembering My Late Brother"
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