Artist:Yi I
Medium: Ink on paper, silk brocade
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Dates:mid 16th century
Dimensions: frame: 18 1/2 × 26 3/4 × 1 in. (47 × 67.9 × 2.5 cm)
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Accession Number: 2022.37.3
Image: 2022.37.3_PS11.jpg,
Catalogue Description: Poem of five lines plus signature, written on a single page that is now mounted as an album leaf and framed. The lines are written in loose cursive in Chinese characters that are of uneven size and varied style. It is sealed twice, once on the mounting paper. The author and calligrapher, Yi I, is better known by his sobriquet, Yul Gok, and is much celebrated in Korea as an important promoter of the Neo-Confucian philosophy that would come to guide most aspects of life for Korea's upper classes. Yul Gok appears on the 5,000 Won note, the equivalent of the $5 bill. Poem has not been translated.