Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Robert Tuck (review)

SATOKO SHIMAZAKI reviews Robert Tuck, Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, & Community in 19th-Century Japan. “Provocative view of Meiji poetic communities characterized by instability & exclusionism—the rejection of universal, national particip

@jas_tw @JJS_jrnl “IDLY SCRIBBLING RHYMERS is also a lively and extremely interesting portrait of exchange among modern intellectuals, some of them significant political figures, who aspired to create new communities and new aesthetics.” –Satoko Shimazaki