Idly Scribbling Rhymers : : Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan / / Robert Tuck.

How can literary forms fashion a nation? Though genres such as the novel and newspaper have been credited with shaping a national imagination and a sense of community, during the rapid modernization of the Meiji period, Japanese intellectuals took a striking—but often overlooked—interest in poetry’s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Weatherhead Books on Asia
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 4 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. Climbing the Stairs of Poetry: Kanshi, Print, and Writership in Nineteenth- Century Japan
  • CHAPTER TWO. Not the Kind of Poetry Men Write: “Fragrant- Style” Kanshi and Poetic Masculinity in Meiji Japan
  • CHAPTER THREE. Clamorous Frogs and Verminous Insects: Nippon and Political Haiku, 1890– 1900
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Shiki’s Plebeian Poetry: Haiku as “Commoner Literature,” 1890– 1900
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Unmanly Poetry of Our Times: Shiki, Tekkan, and Waka Reform, 1890– 1900
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index