Shintaishi-shō

poetry collection

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place in Japanese literature

  • Nise-e
    In Japanese literature: Western influences on poetry

    The pioneer collection Shintaishi-shō (1882; “Selection of Poems in the New Style”) contained not only translations from English but also five original poems by the translators in the poetic genres of the foreign examples. The translators declared that although European poetry had greater variety than Japanese poetry—some poems…

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