The Evolution of Du Fu's Poetics in the Japanese Mid-Edo Period:Taking Kinoshita School as an Example
The development of Chinese poetics in Japan reached its peak in the Japanese Edo period and demonstrated periodic characteristics due to the different influences by the poetics of the Song,Ming and Qing dynasties.In the early Edo period,Chinese poetics in Japan mainly upheld Song style.In the Mid-Edo period,it advocated Tang style gradually.In the late Edo period,eclecticism was adopted.In the transfer from Tang poetics to Song poetics in the Early and middle Edo period,Kinoshita School displayed their key transitional roles.Kinoshita School was mostly known for Confucianism,and was influenced by the poems of the Ming Dynasty,and its acceptance of Du Fu's poems integrated various voices like"the Song-oriented"and"the Tang and Ming-respecting,"showing a transition from"the Song-oriented"to"the Tang and Ming-respecting."The interpretation of Du Fu's poems by the Kinoshita School had a color of Neo-Confucianism,which sometimes coincided with the Zhuists'concept:"worshiping Du Fu"is connected with"advocating classics"and"clarifying principle."According to the distinction between the refined and vulgar,the Kinoshita School interpreted Du Fu's poems with a flourishing Tang dynasty style,highlighting its elegant style.The interpretation of Du Fu's poems by the Kinoshita School also had a practical character,and focused on the artistic characteristics and model significance of Du Fu's poems to guide the writing of Chinese poems.Due to its inclusiveness,richness and practicality,the interpretation of Du Fu's poems by the Kinoshita School became the important transition from the early Neo-Confucianism poetics to the mid-term theory of literary style,showing a unique significance and value in the history of poetics.
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