Yanagawa Seigan

Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practised the art of traditional Sinitic poetry—works written in literary Sinitic, or classical Chinese, a language of enduring importance far beyond China's borders. Together, they led itinerant lives, travelling around Japan teaching poetry and selling calligraphy. Seigan established Edo-period Japan's largest poetry...