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13. Dafu Ise-weki and Wekiya-ku
| In the first year of Zhengshi (A. D. 240), the governor (of the Daifang county), Gong Zun, dispatched Jian Zhong Xiao Wei (meaning an Officer who Builds Loyalty), Ti Jun, and others. They reached Wa Country carrying and protecting the Imperial edict and the seal. When they were received in audience by an acting king of Wa, they brought up the edict, and gave gold, silk, brocades, woolen carpets, swords, mirrors, and other selected items. The king of Wa sent a document through the (Chinese) messenger in reply, in which she thanked for the Imperial edict. In the fourth year (A. D. 243) of the same, the King of Wa dispatched as messengers, Dafu Ise-weki (meaning five backs and a carved wood), Wekiya-ku (meaning a carved wooden arrow and a storehouse), and eight others, and contributed servants, Wa's brocades, purple silk cloths of hutako-weave (with double threads), cotton clothes, silk cloths, read lead, wooden fu (?) (a percussion instrument), short bows, and arrows. Wekiya-ku and others were granted identically the (silver) seal and the (blue) ribbon for Shuai Shan Zhong Lang Jiang (meaning a General Leading to Goodness). In the sixth year (A. D. 245) of the same, (the Chinese Emperor) issued an Imperial edict granting Nan-shiwomae an yellow flag. It was stored in the (Daifang) county, which was to act (for the Emperor) in handing it to him. |
