Title: Reception of Bai Juyi's Poetry by ōnuma Chinzan
Abstract: In early modern Japan,as the Ancient Rhetoric School gradually lost its popularity,the poetic style imitating Tang and Ming Dynasty poetry began to give way to a new style of simplicity.Bai Juyi's poetry,which had been ignored by the poetic circles of Edo for a long time,now became a model for various poets,among which ōnuma Chinzan of the late Tokugawa Shogunate was a typical example.ōnuma Chinzan,not only using the same rhyme sequence,but also trying to absorb Bai Juyi's poetic techniques on the basis of a thorough understanding of Bai's poetry,integrated Japan's national legends into Gexing poetry and finally succeeded in the localization of the Chinese poetry.This paper is meant to argue that ōnuma Chinzan witnesses Japan's full reception of Bai Juyi's poetry during the last phase of Edo Period.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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