New Books in East Asian Studies
Yanagawa Seigan, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Yanagawa Seigan (17891858) and his wife Kran (180479) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practiced the art of traditional Sinitic poetryworks written in literary Sinitic, or classical Chinese, a language of enduring importan