Hú Kuí 胡奎 (1331–1405), zì Xūbái 虛白, hào Dǒunán lǎorén 斗南老人 (“Old Man of the South-of-the-Dipper” — a title with a legendary origin preserved in Zhū Quán 朱權’s preface to his collection, involving a Daoist’s juéjù riddle that the Sìkù editors regard as a hàoshì zhě fabrication), native of Hǎiníng 海寧 (Zhèjiāng). Born in Yuán Zhìshùn era. As a youth a pupil of Gòng Shītài 貢師泰. In the early Míng summoned as a rúshì and appointed Níngwángfǔ jiàoshòu 寧王府教授 — household tutor at the Princely Establishment of Níng under 朱權 Zhū Quán 朱權 (1378–1448), Hóngwǔ’s seventeenth son, one of the principal early-Míng literary patrons. His verse collection KR4e0067 Dǒunán lǎorén jí 斗南老人集 in six juǎn (over 1,900 poems — one of the largest early-Míng single-author biéjí) was cut by the Níngwángfǔ Wényīngguǎn 寧王府文英館 in the Hóngwǔ era and survives via the Kūnshān Xúshì Chuánshìlóu yǐngchāo; a separate four-juǎn manuscript by Yáo Shòu 姚綮 (Yúndōng yìshǐ 雲東逸史) passed through Xiàng Yuánbiàn’s 項元汴 Tiānlàigé and afterward through Gāo Jīgǔtáng 高氏稽古堂 and Mǎ Sīzàn 馬思贊’s libraries. CBDB id 28456: 1331–1405, confirmed.