Kim Manjung 金萬重
novelist · official · Joseon Korea · 1637–1692
Born after his father's death and raised by his widowed mother. He is said to have written the novel The Nine Cloud Dream in exile to comfort her. He died in exile on Namhae.
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September 25, 1689 · In exile on Namhae. His mother died that winter
This morning I meant to write down how I miss my mother, but before a word was formed my tears were already flowing. How many times have I wet the brush and thrown it down again? My collected works will have to go without the poems from Namhae.
今朝欲寫思親語 字未成時淚已滋
幾度濡毫還復擲 集中應缺海南詩Seopo jip, "The Twenty-fifth Day of the Ninth Month, 1689"
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