A sequel to the Pahan jip written at the request of the Choe house, by a man born in 1188 who knew the generation of 1200 as a boy and young official. Its anecdotes of Yi Gyu-bo, Yi Illo and their circle, of Choe Chung-heon's patronage of letters, and of the capital's poetry gatherings fill in the cultural life of the Goryeo court in the years around 1200, and it comments on the examinations and on official careers. Later and more partisan for the Choe than the Pahan jip, but informed.
About this source
- Title
- Bohan jip (補閑集)
- Author
- Choe Ja (崔滋)
- Author's dates
- 1188 to 1260
- Written
- 1254
- Language
- Chinese (Literary Sinitic)
- Covers
- literary and historical anecdotes of Goryeo from the founding to the 1250s, with most weight on the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries
- Kind
- Collection of sources
No English translation. Written half a century after 1200.