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Robert Tuck’s new book, Idly Scribbling Rhymers, is an ambitious study of the place of poetry in a modernizing Japan in the last decades of the nineteenth century. As his fascinating books maps the modernization debates of traditional poetic forms, it becomes apparent that the modern nation-state expressed itself in poetry and that poetry was an important battleground where the contours of the nation-state were given shape
Throughout, Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), best known as innovator and reputedly the inventor of the “haiku” and a kanshi and waka poet, functions as a central agent in these processes, as does the newspaper Nippon in which Shiki would publish much of his views
The first two chapters deal with kanshi, the third and fourth with haiku, and the final chapter with waka, progressing over a roughly chronological trajectory, with a heavy emphasis on the nineteenth century’s last decade
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Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan Robert Tuck’s new book, Idly Scribbling Rhymers, is an ambitious study of the place of poetry in a modernizing Japan in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
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