Chapter
Two Ascetics Meet on Sosŭl Mountain – Sŏ Chŏngju
Painting the Great Worship Hall in Naeso-sa – Sŏ Chŏngju
Evening on the Mountain: Song to the Moon in the Well – Yi Kyubo
Good Times in Koryŏ – Sŏ Chŏngju
Hŏsaeng’s Tale – Pak Chiwŏn
The Yangban’s Tale – Pak Chiwŏn
Conclusions from the Study of the Yangban Concept
Ramifications of the Yangban’s Tale
New Year’s Day: Year of the Dog
6. The Cultural Experience: Where To Begin
The Tan’gun Myth – Sŏ Chŏngju
Figure in the Distance – Chŏng Chak
7. The Confucian Monolith
Song in Praise of Spring – Chŏng Kŭgin
The mountain may be high – Yang Saŏn
She’s Right, You’re Right – Sŏ Chŏngju
Even ignorant men seek perfection – Yi Hwang
Autumn Night – Chŏng Ch’ŏl
Yulgok and Songgang – Sŏ Chŏngju
Hunmin ka, Puŭi moja – Chŏng Ch’ŏl
Has the worst of winter passed? – Yun Sŏndo
Ŏbu sashi sa (The Fisherman’s Calendar) – Yun Sŏndo
I’ll never forget the boy – Yi Chŏngbo
Look at that girl in blouse and patterned skirt – Kim Sujang
Of flying birds and beasts that crawl – Anonymous
It is the third watch – Anonymous
Song of Right and Wrong – Kim Sakkat
The Marok Biographies: Ma Chun’s Tale – Sŏ Kiwŏn
I’m building a straw hut beneath a rock – Yun Sŏndo
The tree is diseased – Chŏng Ch’ŏl
Inculturation at the End of Chosŏn
Café France – Chŏng Chiyong
The Marok Biographies: Ma Yŏng’s Tale – Sŏ Kiwŏn
Impromptu Song – Sŏ Kŏjŏng
It Faired and Rained Again – Kim Shisŭp
Ch’usa Kim Chŏnghŭi – Sŏ Chŏngju
8. The Chosŏn Bureaucracy
9. The Buddhist Ingredient
Jubilee Temple – Paek Kwanghun
Tiny Room in Flower Sage Temple – Chŏng Chisang
Wŏlmyŏng the Monk – Sŏ Chŏngju
Song of Three Dreams – Sŏsan taesa
The Diplomatic Corps Goes Buddhist
Lodging in the Head Monk’s Quarters
Shilla Future Expertise – Sŏ Chŏngju
Written on the Monk’s Scroll in Pong’ŭn-sa Temple – Ch’oeKyŏngch’ang
Kamno-sa Temple – Kim Pushik
Visit to the Hermitage of Master Ka – Yi Kyubo
A shadow is reflected in the water – Chŏng Chŏl
The Nun’s Dance – Cho Chihun
The Making of the Great Buddha Image at Hwangnyong-saTemple – Sŏ Chŏngju
Paekp’a and Ch’usa – Sŏ Chŏngju
Rip your black robe asunder – Anonymous
Destination – Cho Byunghwa
Ritual Service for a Dead Sister – Wŏlmyŏng
Like the Wind Leaving the Lotus – Sŏ Chŏngju
The cuckoo calls; the moon is low on the mountain – Tanjong
I nodded off: I lost my fishing pole – Anonymous
Kim Inhu’s Perverted Hŭng
Exponents of P’ungnyu-Mŏt
11. Chilmajae Songs – Sŏ Chŏngju
Exceptional Pressure in the Urinary Pump of the EsteemedWife of Squire Yi
Mrs. Greatwater: The Sighs of a Childless Woman
The Women Under the Zelkova
12. Korea’s Greatest Asset
Woman in Crisis – Ko Chŏnghŭi
Non Person Saddles His Horse and Rides Offin All Directions
Intrepidity Gets It Wrong
The Sin of a Smile – Kim Tonghwan
It Goes Without Saying – Han Yong’un
Song of the Orioles – pre-Shilla song
Paekche P’iri Pipe – Sŏ Chŏngju
Girl Getting Married – Sŏ Chŏngju
Ch’ŏyong’s Song – hyangga
Getting Pregnant and Having Babies – Sŏ Chŏngju
At the Rising of the Ch’uso˘ k Moon – Sŏ Chŏngju
Spring Pervades the Pavilion – Koryŏ kayo
Song of P’yŏngyang – Koryŏ kayo
I’ll cut a piece from the waist – Hwang Chini
Thoughts of My Mother – Shinsaimdang
To My Lord Reading in His Study – Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn
Picking Lotus Seeds – Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn
The Heart of a Lonely Woman – Yi Okpong
The Sorrow of Parting – Yi Okpong
Autumn Thoughts – Yi Maech’ang
Rhododendron – Sŏ Chŏngju
The Music of What Happens
Lady Immortal Strikes Out Boldly: The Year of the Rat
For an Unidentified You – Ch’oe Sŭngja
Years from Now – Kim Sowŏl
13. Tales Of The Immortals
What’s in a Name? – Sŏ Chŏngju
The King’s Pride – based on a Sŏ Chŏngju poem
Kwŏn Kim – based on a Sŏ Chŏngju poem
What about living this way – Yi Pangwŏn
Tanshim ka – Chŏng Mongju
Yi Sŏnggye’s Heaven – Sŏ Chŏngju
Dogs Fighting in Muddy Fields – Chŏng Tojŏn
Sejong and His Two Brothers – Sŏ Chŏngju
Smile of the Ever-ready – Sŏ Chŏngju
Dead as Living – Sŏ Chŏngju
The moon is bright tonight. I sit alone
The Colour White – Sŏ Chŏngju
The Toe of the Pŏsŏn and Komushin – Sŏ Chŏngju
The Forgotten Immortal, James Scarth Gale
Fiddling Immortal Strikes a Magic Note
Plum Blossom – Kang Hŭian
Resting at Shihu Inn – Yi Kyubo
The Immortal Cardinal Kim Suhwan
Gentle into that Good Night – for Sr. Zita
14. At The Cultural Coalface: Immersion,Submersion? – Take Your Pick
This old sick heart – Kim Sujang
Ch’usŏk: The Harvest Moon Festival
Written on the Upper Storey of Yusŏng Post House –Yi Kyubo
The Parish Priest Bamboozles the Local Gendarmerie
Lady of Perpetual Succour
Poem of Flower Stone Pavilion – Yi Yulgok
Early Morning Aggravation
Priests Not Quite Forever
15. Nine Priest Immortals
Passing (In Memory of Sean Quinn)
A Cold Eye (In Memory of Aidan Murray)
Granite Man (In Memory of Tommy Comerford)
Death Song (Grieving for Noel Ryan)
February 2008 (In Memory of Wally Nugent)
Purest Celadon (In Memory of Hub Hayward)
Good Friday: After a Poem by an Old Master (In Memory ofPhil Crosbie)
Looking for the Cow – Han Yong’un
Kyeshim-sa – Open the Heart Temple
Evening: Self Portrait – Cho Byunghwa
Summer Clouds – Chŏng Chisang
Night Rain on the Xiaoxiang – Yi Illo
Is a Little Learning a Dangerous Thing?
17. For Those Of Us With Less Thanimmortal Status
Speaking My Mind in Sickness – Kim Shisŭp
Autumn night falls on the river – Prince Wŏlsan
Ilsan Yangban Fails the Immortals’ Exam
At the Closing of Kwandaeri
Things Are Not Like They Used To Be
Kŭmgang San: The Diamond Mountains