New Books in East Asian Studies

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)

July 21, 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