Yatsushiro Shogun Yoshimune always wanted to see elephants, so on June 13, 1728 (1728), an elephant landed at Nagasaki Port. A Chinese merchant brought two male and female elephants from the present Vietnam.
The female elephant died due to illness, but the male elephant departed Nagasaki for Edo on March 13, 1729.
In Kyoto, I watch the morning with Emperor Nakamikado and Emperor Reigen.
At this time, the elephant was not able to enter and exit the palace, so he was suddenly given the elephant fourth place and was named "Konan White Elephant".
The Emperor's royal family expressed the surprise of seeing an elephant in poetry. It is included in "viewing grass" as a "writing poem".
It took about 350 ri (about 1400 kilometers) and 74 days from Nagasaki to Edo.
In Edo, not only Yoshimune but also various daimyo saw it, but after spending 13 years at Hamarikyu, he was finally paid money to Gensuke and Yahee of Naka Nomura (Nakano-ku) and lowered it.
He became ill in December 1742 (1742) and died without any treatment.
An elephant is watching in the morning with Emperor Nakamikado and Emperor Reigen in Kyoto.
The red and white cluster amaryllis of Hamarikyu are red and white, but they are influenced by the outside air like cherry blossoms and bloom early or late, and always come out of the soil on the autumn equinoctial week without blooming early or blooming late.
