S?ngmun chip [or] Seongmun jip ??? [Writings from Stone Gate]

O, I-ik ???

Beschreibung

Two pages of woodcut cursive calligraphy. Metal movable (?) type. 78; 99 folding leaves. Five juan in two vols. Large 8vo (327 x 195 mm.), orig. brown semi-stiff wrappers (wrappers somewhat soiled), new stitching. [Korea]: Torim kangdang ????, 1874. First edition and quite rare. Shadows rise among the distant trees; Fragrant foliage, the evening sky; The white heron recognizes my leisurely disposition; And drops the poem by my side. Thus reads "Returning to Stone Gate" (s?ngmun kwiro ????), the opening poem in this collection of verse and prose by O I-ik ??? (1618-66). It was posthumously published in 1874 by the author s descendants, a common practice in late Chos?n Korea. O had an official career, but retired after having been exiled for a period. In rural retirement, beautifully captured in his poem, O called himself "the hermit of Stone Gate" (s?ngmun k?sa ????), hence the name of his posthumous oeuvre. O s ancestral home was Naju in present-day South Jeolla province, and his descendants apparently still lived there seven generations later. The undated Preface by Yi Ky?ng-jae ??? (1800-73) undated Preface tells of how O K?ng-gyu (or O Geung-hyu) ??? came from Naju with a collection of his ancestor s writings, seeking to publish them. "I washed my hands and read them," Yi wrote, "finding among them poems exchanged with Mr. Kwich ?n. I could not help but gently put my hand on the scroll and let it touch me; Mr. O had been an old friend of my own ancestor." According to the colophon written by O Chun-s?n ??? an eighth-generation descendant of O I-ik, and thus one generation below O K?ng-gyu O I-ik had left behind over 500 poems. O Chun-s?n s colophon is dated 1874, which is also the date of the imprint. The work in addition contains an undated colophon signed by Ko Si-hong ??? References Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ??????????? https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/ Korean Old and Rare Collection Information System ????????? https://www.nl.go.kr/korcis/index.do. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9424

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Titel: S?ngmun chip [or] Seongmun jip ??? [Writings...

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