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Description: A medallion with the Jurchen translation of the Chinese couplet, Ming wang shen de, si yi xian bin ("明王慎德.四夷咸賓": "When a wise king is heedful of virtue, foreigners from all quarters come as guests").
Title: Jurchen-characters-from-Yanzhou-shanren-sibu-gao
Credit: Ming Dynasty edition of Yanzhou Shanren sibu gao (弇州山人四部稿, Catalog of books in the collection of Yanzhou Shanren), by Yanzhou Shanren (a.k.a 王世貞 Wang Shizhen, 1526-1590) himself. Later reproduced in a number of books in Chinese, French, and English, including Daniel Kane, "The Sino-Jurchen Vocabulary of the Bureau of Interpreters" (1989), p. 71. Also found in Fangshi Mopu (方氏墨譜, 1588), an illustrated collection of molds for making ink cakes.
Author: Yanzhou Shanren (a.k.a Ming Sizhen, 1526-1590), probably based on a Ming or Jin Dynasty book in his possession
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