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D5 Basil Hall Chamberlain, Japan, and English-Language Verse (445 words) |
 | Chamberlain’s The Classical Poetry of the Japanese (London: Trübner, 1880) was the first knowledgeable study of Japanese poetry in a European language, and together with Bashô [Ap] and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. |
| Chamberlain’s equation of the ‘lyric drama’ of Japan with the drama of classical Greece is echoed two decades later in the more famous elaboration of the point by Fenollosa, who acknowledges Chamberlain’s work (see 10b and BK13b). |
| While it is primarily Chamberlain’s translations that secured his reputation, his many other works about Japan have been widely read, and their importance in shaping the early twentieth-century European and American image of the country was profound. |
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