Jo Sik 曺植
scholar out of office · Joseon Korea · 1501–1572
He declined office all his life and taught pupils at the foot of Mount Jiri. A scholar who sent blunt memorials even to the king.
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1560s
Look, I beg you, at the bell of a thousand stone: unless you strike it hard, it gives no sound. Yet how can it compare with Mount Jiri, which does not ring even when the sky rings?
請看千石鍾 非大扣無聲
爭似頭流山 天鳴猶不鳴Nammyeong jip, "Written on a Pillar of the Stream Pavilion at Deoksan"
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