Plucking Chrysanthemums - Narushima Ryuhoku and Sinitic Literary Traditions in Modern Japan
Matthew Fraleigh examines the life and works of Narushima Ryuhoku (1837-1884): Confucian scholar, world traveler, pioneering journalist, and irrepressible satirist. This is the first book-length study of Ryuhoku in a Western language and one of the first Western-language monographs to examine Sinitic poetry and prose composition in modern Japan.