The Popularization of the Hundred Poets in Edo-Period Japan
with Professor Joshua Mostow

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Join us on a journey exploring how knowledge of the Hyakunin Isshu (One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each) collection spread among the commoner class in Japan's early modern Edo period (1600-1868) to become the foundation of popular literary literacy through the booming print culture, especially by means of illustrated commentaries in books and popular prints, and its influence on early English translations of these poets.

Joshua Mostow is Professor in the Dept. of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He has written widely on premodern Japanese literature and its relations to visual arts. His most recent publication is Hyakunin'shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2024).

Sponsored by UW Japan Studies Program and Washin Kai - Friends of Classical Japanese 

UW Japan Studies brings together faculty, students, and the greater community and is the nexus of Japan-related learning at the university. See more information at: https://jsis.washington.edu/japan/

Washin Kai - Friends of Classical Japanese is a volunteer group dedicated to the promotion of classical Japanese studies at the University of Washintton. See more information at www.washinkai.info