Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture

This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers – Yosa Buson (1716–83), Ema Saikō (1787–1861), Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), and Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) – experimented with the poetic artifice afforded by the East Asian literati (bunjin) tradition, a repertoire of Chinese and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mewhinney, Matthew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter One: “Yosa Buson and the Colors of the Literati Mind”
  • Chapter Two: “Sense and Sensibility in the Poetry of Ema Saikō”
  • Chapter Three: “Representing Life in the Prose Poems of Masaoka Shiki”
  • Chapter Four: “Grief and Grieving in the Prose Poems of Natsume Sōseki”
  • Coda: “Echoes in the Ether”