Zhū Pǔ 朱朴 (16th century; also written 朱樸), zì Yuánsù 元素, hào Xīcūn 西村, of Hǎiyán 海鹽 (Zhèjiāng). A private poet of the Zhèngdé and Jiājìng decades who exchanged verses with Wén Zhēngmíng and Sūn Yīyuán 孫一元 in the Wú-school orbit. He deliberately stood apart from the Hòu Qī Zǐ (Latter Seven Masters) patronage circuit centred on Wáng Shìzhēn, with the result that his fame in his own time was modest. The Sìkù tíyào treats his obscurity as a moral rather than a literary matter and explicitly praises his rénpǐn (personal grade). His Xīcūn shījí KR4e0181 was edited by his grandson Zhū Cǎi 朱綵. Lifedates not securely established; CBDB 693482 has only zero markers.