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Wang Hong: 毅齋集

Yi Zha Ji (d1420)

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Taken from: http://www.kanripo.org/text/KR4e0087/001

 

In a poem called: The Kirin Fu he mentions in the introduction to the poem that in the thirteenth year of Yongle (1) in August Ma Lin (2) country 麻林國 brought a qilin 麒麟.(3)

 

Left: the first page of the poem

 

(1) Yongle; Youngle: The Yongle Emperor — personal name Zhu Di, or Chu Ti— was the third Emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1402 to 1424.

(2) Ma Lin country 麻林國: Malindi in Kenya.

(3) a qilin 麒麟: giraffe


瑞應麒麟賦  

永樂十三年八月麻林國貢麒麟翰林修撰臣王洪為賦以獻其辭曰

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