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The Same Moon Shines on All
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

The Same Moon Shines on All

Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practiced the art of traditional Sinitic poetry—works written in literary Sinitic, or classical Chinese, a language of enduring importance far beyond China’s borders. Together, they led itinerant lives, traveling around Japan teaching poetry and selling calligraphy. Seigan established Edo-period Japan’s largest poetry society and attained nationwide renown as a literary figure, as well as taking part in stealthy political activities in the years before the Meiji Restoration. Kōran was one of the most accomplished female composers of Sinitic poetry in Japanese his...

Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 593

Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-12-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Throughout history, Japanese women have excelled in poetry - from the folk songs of the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) compiled in 712 and the court poetry of the 9th to the 14th centuries, on through the age of haikai and kanshi to the 19th century, into the contemporary period when books of women's poems have created a sensation.This anthology presents examples of the work of more than 100 Japanese women poets, arranged chronologically, and of all the major verse forms: choka, tanka, haikai (haiku), kanshi (verse written in Chinese), and free verse. The poems describe not just seasonal changes and the vagaries of love - which form the thematic core of traditional Japanese poetry - but ...

Flowering in the Shadows
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Flowering in the Shadows

  • Categories: Art

For well over a thousand years Chinese and Japanese women created, commissioned, collected and used paintings, yet until recently this fact has scarcely been acknowledged in the study of East Asian art by Westerners.

Toward Restoration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 455

Toward Restoration

H.D. Harootunian has provided a new preface for the paperback edition of his classic study Toward Restoration, the first intellectual history of the Meiji Restoration in English.

Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: NIAS Press

A study of Japan's traditional Confucian schools, this book contributes to an understanding of education in the Meiji period and is of relevance to the reform of Japan's public education system. The establishment of a national education system soon after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 is recognized as a significant factor in Japan's modernization."

A Companion to Japanese History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 633

A Companion to Japanese History

A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan’s history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies

The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 815
Early Modern Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 624

Early Modern Japan

A survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) that blends political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. It also introduces a fresh ecological perspective, covering natural disasters, resource use, demographics, and river control.

Modern Japanese Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 418

Modern Japanese Thought

A comprehensive intellectual history describing the forces that made Japanese thinkers both receptive and hostile to Western ideas and values.

The Cambridge History of Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 660

The Cambridge History of Japan

This volume covers the end of feudal society and the shogunate in Japan, and the growing power of the emperor.