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    This document provides a summary of the materials covered in Part V of an exhibition on the history of Japanese literature based on books. It discusses the following periods and genres: 1. Modern literature from the Meiji period (1868-1887), as Japan underwent rapid modernization and Western influence. 2. Literature from the early Meiji era (1868-1877) as Japan shifted from old to new culture and classical works coexisted with Western-influenced works. 3. Gesaku works from the Meiji period that addressed new subjects using traditional Edo period styles.

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    Regular Exhibition "History of Japanese Literature Based on Books" Materials List, Part V

    名　称 名称ふりがな 解　説

    Ⅴ Modern Literature きんだいのぶんがく

    The period from the Meiji period is broadly defined as the modern period in the history of literature as well
    as the history of Japan. Under the new Meiji government that replaced the Tokugawa shogunate, the country
    underwent rapid modernization in order to catch up with Europe. Numerous European books, items and
    thoughts were suddenly introduced to Japan, and literature was also not able to escape from their direct and
    indirect influence. As the finale in the history of Japanese classical literature, this section covers the period
    until around 1887, when literature that had continued until the Edo period retreated gradually from the stage
    and modern literature showed a sign of its prosperity.
    Literature from 1868 to 87. The modern Japan started as the Meiji Restoration drastically changed the
    Literature in the Early Meiji めいじじだいしょきのぶん political and social systems. The first half of the Meiji period was still in the process of the shift from old to
    new culture. Similarly, in literature, works in the tradition from the Edo period coexisted with ones under the
    Era がく influence of European literature. This period was the beginning of modern literature and the end of classical
    literature.
    Gesaku means dangi-bon, kokkei-bon, share-bon, kibyoshi, gokan, yomihon, and ninjo-bon in and after the
    late Edo period. Since the Meiji period, there were works that treated subject matters of the new age with the
    Gesaku in the Meiji Period めいじきげさく methodology and format of gesaku in the Edo period. Major works include Aguranabe by Kanagaki Robun
    and Seirou Hankatsu by Mantei Oga, which satirized the society bewildered by rapid Westernization, as well
    as Takahashi Oden Yasha Monogatari by Robun.

    In the decade from 1877 emerged political novels, which primarily treated politics under the influence of
    European novels against the background of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement. Representative
    works include Keikoku Bidan by Yano Ryukei and Kajin no Kigu by Tokai Sanshi. Futabatei Shimei, who
    Novels and Critique しょうせつ・ひょうろん learned from Russian literature, published the first volume of The Drifting Cloud in 1887, which marked the
    beginning of modern novels. The theories of novels based on ones in Europe include Shosetsu Shinzui by
    Tsubouchi Shoyo and Shosetsu Soron by Futabatei Shimei.

    The Meiji government advocated the improvement of drama and demanded kabuki to have contents and
    nature suitable to a civilized nation. Kawatake Mokuami, who had been a major author since the end of the
    Edo period, responded to it by creating zangirimono, which was sewamono incorporating new social
    Performing Arts (Kabuki げいのう（かぶき・らく customs, and katsurekimono, which was historical stories based on actual historical events. They were,
    and Rakugo) ご） however, unpopular among the general public. Works in this period include zangirimono Shima Chidori
    Tsukimi no Shiranami and sewamono Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana . Rakugo master San'yutei
    Encho was active in the early Meiji period and created Shinkei Kasanegafuchi and other stories. His way of
    reciting influenced the advent of sentences that unified the written and spoken languages.

    Waka had been dominated by keien-ha and other old schools until the decade from 1887. The leader was
    Takasaki Masakaze, a poet of the Outa-Kakari department in the court. Without major poets, haikai poems
    were actively created by the general public as in the Edo period, and many anthologies were also published.
    Waka and Haikai わか・はいかい While some poems showed novelty by treating events, items or customs of the new age, almost all poems
    had a uniform idea or expression. Later, Masaoka Shiki criticized haikai poems after the Tempo period
    collectively as "tsukinami-cho" or a trite style.
    Even in the Meiji period when European culture dominated, Chinese poetry remained active, valued as part
    of men's culture. Numerous anthologies, personal collections and textbooks about creating poems were
    Chinese Poetry かんしぶん published. Major poets in the early Meiji period include Mori Shunto, Onuma Chinzan and Ono Kozan.
    Shunto primarily created Qing poems, in contrast to Chinzan creating Sung poems and Kozan writing Tang
    poems.
    In 1882, Toyama Masakazu, Yatabe Ryokichi and Inoue Tetsujiro published Shintaishi-sho , which was a
    collection of translated European poems and original poems created after the model of them. While the term
    "shi" or poetry had only meant Chinese poetry, they called long poems written in Japanese "shintai-shi" or
    Poetry し new style poetry, contrary to Chinese poetry. In spite of its restriction of the seven-and-five syllable meter
    and the literary style, it became the starting point of modern poetry in Japan, followed by a series of other
    poetry works including Shintai-shiika edited by Takeuchi Setsu, which was published immediately after it.

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