Event Details:

Join us for a talk by Matthew Fraleigh (Brandeis University) on the lives and poetry of Yanagawa Seigan and Koran, two influential nineteenth-century Japanese poets who wrote in literary Sinitic. The talk explores their travels, poetic networks, and engagement with a Japan facing major political and cultural change at the end of the Tokugawa period.

The event will also feature a virtual appearance by Jonathan Chaves, distinguished translator of Chinese poetry, who will read selections from both poets.