Chinese & Japanese

Ch’ien Ch’i

graduated AD 751


Ch’ien Ch’i graduated at the government examinations in AD 751.

The poems here are Witter Bynner’s versions, from the texts of Kiang Kang-hu, in The Jade Mountain (1929).

  1. Farewell to a Japanese Buddhist Priest Bound Homeward
  2. From My Study at the Mouth of the Valley, a Message to Censor Yang
  3. To My Friend at the Capital, Secretary P’ei

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