Japanese Imperialism and Poetic Matrices: Conventional Projections of Nature and Labor in Early Colonial Taiwan.

The article discusses poetry in Taiwan during the Taiwan's early colonial period, from 1895 to 1915, with a focus on the Japanese influence and the use of images of nature and labor. Topics include the use of traditional poetry forms such as tanka to cater to Japanese newspaper readers and to obscure the interests of the Taiwanese Chinese and Taiwanese aboriginal populations, the place of traditional Japanese poetry and poetic forms in relation to the modern period and the colonial context, and a discussion of Japanese nature poetry as an element of the colonial economy.