The earlier of the two Goryeo books of literary anecdote, by a scholar who survived the military coup of 1170 by taking refuge in a monastery and later served under the Choe regime. Its stories of poets, kings, monks, temples, gardens and provincial towns are the best witness to the civil elite's life and culture under military rule around 1200, and it names many of the men in office then. Light on politics by design.
About this source
- Title
- Pahan jip (破閑集)
- Author
- Yi Illo (李仁老)
- Author's dates
- 1152 to 1220
- Written
- completed 1214, printed 1260
- Language
- Chinese (Literary Sinitic)
- Covers
- literary anecdotes about Goryeo poets, officials, monks and places, mostly from the twelfth century to the 1210s
- Kind
- Collection of sources
No English translation.