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Plucking Chrysanthemums" is a critical study of the life and works of Narushima Ry hoku (1837 1884): Confucian scholar, world traveler, pioneering journalist, and irrepressible satirist. A major figure on the nineteenth-century Japanese cultural scene, Ry hoku wrote works that were deeply rooted in classical Sinitic literary traditions. Sinitic poetry and prose enjoyed a central and prestigious place in Japan for nearly all of its history, and the act of composing it continued to offer modern Japanese literary figures the chance to incorporate themselves into a written tradition that transcended national borders. Adopting Ry hoku s multifarious invocations of Six Dynasties poet Tao Yuanming as an organizing motif, Matthew Fraleigh traces the disparate ways in which Ry hoku drew upon the Sinitic textual heritage over the course of his career. The classical figure of this famed Chinese poet and the Sinitic tradition as a whole constituted a referential repository to be shaped, shifted, and variously spun to meet the emerging circumstances of the writer as well as his expressive aims. "Plucking Chrysanthemums" is the first book-length study of Ry hoku in a Western language and also on

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Author

Matthew Fraleigh

Publisher

Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781684175659

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Memoir, History