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80

THE YI DYNASTY ANNALS OF KOREA

c o ~ n t : y .

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TH

Yl DYNASTY ANNALS OF KOREA

fore they are very untrustworthy. G When the first draft

of

the tevision was completed a memorial was presented to

the king asking for permission t burn the first-written

Annals,

but

the precedent for retaining the original was

firmly enough established so that the king decided

to

keep

both records. '

Thus were the Yi dynasby Annals written and preserv

ed, and by the Korean term,inology, delivexed to future

generations.

n

1923, the Tokyo earthquake resulted in the

destruct

ion

of the Odaesan

set

which had been taken to the

Tokyo Imperial University, thus justifying once more the

advice of the Han historian that there should be duplica

te

copies kept in safe storehouses.

There is now

no

long

er

a

ny

danger

that

the Annals will

be lost. for the Keij:o Imperial University lias published a

fa

csimile reproduction and dist

ri

buted this edition among

Japa

nese Imperial Universities and other educational institu

tions.s TMs reproduction of about 40 sets comptising 849

volumes each was completed in 1933 and cost subsccjbers

YS,000.

apiece. The success in the tremendous work of

faithfully ieproducing these Annals demonstrates the in

dustry

and

cru:e

for acc

un

icy which characterizes

Jap

anese

schola1sh ip

at

its best.

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A1111.al ,

Bk. 4, 1777, 101.h month, 29th day.

The ki

.ng

ordered

that the revision begin.

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17119,

7th .month, 281h d

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.

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fi

rst

draft&.- of the

r.ev

ised Annals were competed aad afte-r some discussion.

it

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Annals needed further \vork for c:omplelion . Also Jbid. Bk . 11;

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2nd

month . 1,5 day. The final ccmpleti(ln \va

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sent to the repositories in

1781,

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Bk. 11, 1181, 7h mouth, 6th day.

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