Yi Jehyeon 李齊賢
scholar-official · scholar · Goryeo Korea · 1287–1367
An official and scholar of late Goryeo, known as Ikjae. He lived for years in the Yuan capital among its scholars and travelled almost to Tibet to visit his exiled king. When the Yuan moved to abolish Goryeo and make it a province, he wrote to stop it.
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14th century
The paper quilt is cold and the temple lamp is dim; all night the little novice has not rung the bell. He will be cross that the guest opens the door so early, but I must see the snow weighing down the pine before the hermitage.
紙被生寒佛燈暗 沙彌一夜不鳴鍾
應嗔宿客開門早 要看庵前雪壓松Ikjae nango, "A Snowy Night in the Mountains"
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