01 ／ Southern ship
In 1408, a ship from the southbrought a black elephant.
In the sixth month of 1408, a nanban (南蛮) ship from the southern seas reached Obama. Among the gifts it carried for the shogun were a black elephant, two pairs of peacocks and two pairs of parrots. In the eleventh month a gale drove the ship onto the beach and wrecked it, and it sailed home the next year in a newly built vessel. The Fukui prefectural history takes it to have been sent from Palembang on Sumatra. At Kogasaki (甲ヶ崎) there is a rock where the elephant is said to have been tied.
- 6th month of 1408
- 1 elephant, 2 pairs of peacocks, 2 pairs of parrots
- A new ship built the next year
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