Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Japan Comparative Literature Association  

This study explores how Haga Yaichi (1867-1927), a foundational figure in modern Japanese literary studies (kokubungaku), applied German scholarship to reshape the field. After studying in Berlin, Haga developed the concepts that would form Nihon bunkengaku (Japanese Philology), based on his lectures delivered in 1907. This intellectual project redefined the traditional discipline of early modern Japanese studies (kokugaku). Central to his project was the concept of bungakushi (literary history, which he identified as the most vital part of philology. However, this paper argues that Haga's work was not a simple importation of German ideas but a strategic adaptation tailored to Japan's specific academic and national context. His vision of bungakushi was not mere historiography but a comprehensive "historical study of literature", grounded in meticulous textual criticism and deep contextual knowledge of classical works. To analyze this intellectual transfer, the study compares Haga's theories with those of the German philologists he read, including August Boeckh (1785-1867), Hermann Paul (1846-1921), and Gustav Körting (1845-1913). The goal is to understand which German arguments Haga integrated and his reasons for doing so. The study considers the idea that the differences between Haga's approach and that of his German predecessors reveal fundamental distinctions in how philology was institutionalized and the unique national function it served in Japan versus in Germany.

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Language：German   Publishing type：Part of collection (book)   Publisher：EB-Verlag  

This paper traces the complex genesis of the earliest translation of the Japanese poetry collection Man'yōshū 万葉集 (circa 760) from Japanese into German, and subsequently into English. In this process, the Japanese Germanist Fujishiro Teisuke 藤代禎輔 (1868–1927), his German teacher Karl Florenz (1865-1939), and the Dutch Japanologist Jan Lodewijk Pierson Jr. (1893–1979) play crucial roles. Using a detailed discussion of their German and English translations of the poem "Dialogue on Poverty" from Book V, this paper illuminates a translation practice characteristic of 19th-century philology. Furthermore, it addresses the evaluation of the old Japanese work and its translations into modern Japanese in the first third of the 20th century. The aim of this essay is to analyze the international discourse on Book V of the Man'yōshū, which differs from the identity-forming discourses on the Man'yōshū within Japan.

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)   Publisher：Center for Foreign Language Education and Research, Rikkyo University  

This study represents an attempt to illuminate the intellectual influence of Japanese national literary studies (koku-gaku) on the German Japanologist Karl Florenz (1865-1939) and his representative work, "A History of Japanese Literature" ("Geschichte der japanischen Litteratur", 1906). From 1889 to 1914, this lecturer of German literature at the Tokyo Imperial University established close relationships with his Japanese students and colleagues, some of whom cooperated on his studies of Japanese literature. Their knowledge about Japanese literature was based on the koku-gaku’s tradition that manifested its policy as a modern discipline. After describing the development of the koku-gaku at the Tokyo Imperial University during the modernizing Meiji era (1868-1912), the present study assesses both the manifestation and the function of national literature studies. In these historical contexts, this brief study points out Karl Florenz’s activity and limits of his study of Japanese literature in order to clarify his strategy of the historical writing of national literature as a German oriental philologist, especially in contrast to William G. Aston’s (1841-1911) "A History of Japanese Literature" (1899).

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Language：German   Publishing type：Part of collection (book)   Publisher：Stauffenburg  

This paper addresses the question of how German-language scholarship was incorporated into Japan during the Meiji era. It focuses on Haga Yaichi (1867-1927), known as the founder of Japanese national literature studies, and his representative work, "Kokubungakushi Jukkō" (Ten Lectures on the History of Japanese National Literature, 1899). The paper examines Haga's selection and adaptation of German-language literary theories, using Karl Florenz's "Geschichte der japanischen Litteratur" (History of Japanese Literature, 1906) as a key source. In doing so, it explores the possibility that Haga consciously avoided adopting aspects unique to the German concept of "Klassik/klassisch" (classic), which forms a core part of Florenz's "History of Japanese Literature." Furthermore, the paper investigates the institutional organization of Meiji national studies from the 1870s to 1880s, led by koku-gaku scholar Konakamura Kiyonori (1822-1895), who guided Haga's research, as the backdrop for Haga's selective adoption.

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Language：German   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Japanese Association for German Studies; Iudicium  

This paper explores the nature of academic exchange between the German-speaking world and Japan at the end of the 19th century, focusing on Karl Florenz (1865-1939), a German literature professor at Tokyo Imperial University, and his representative work, "Geschichte der japanischen Litteratur" (History of Japanese Literature, 1906). Florenz acquired extensive and detailed knowledge of Japanese literature through his Japanese collaborators. He organized this knowledge based on the descriptive methods of German literary history and wrote "History of Japanese Literature." This paper hypothesizes "History of Japanese Literature" as a hybrid work in which elements of German and Japanese literary studies were combined by Florenz, and examines it as a case of German-Japanese academic contact. First, the structure of "History of Japanese Literature" is compared with that of Wilhelm Scherer's "Geschichte der deutschen Litteratur" (History of German Literature, 1883), which Florenz is thought to have referenced, to substantiate their descriptive parallels. Furthermore, an analysis is conducted on a passage in which Florenz evaluates the "Man'yōshū" as containing abundant masculine content inherent in the Japanese national spirit. This analysis reveals that he found similarities and differences between Scherer's description of German literary history and the literary theory of Kamo no Mabuchi (1697-1769), a scholar of the early modern Japanese literary studies conveyed to him by his Japanese collaborators.

★ This paper received the 20th Prize of Japanese Association for German Studies and German Academic Exchange Service in June 2023.

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Total pages：256   Responsible for pages：44-78   Language：Japanese Book type：Scholarly book

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Total pages：324   Language：Japanese Book type：Scholarly book

This book focuses on the aspect of contact in German-Japanese academic exchange. As a specific subject of discussion, it deals with Karl Florenz (1865–1939), a teacher at the Imperial University who is considered the founder of German literature in Japan and Japanese studies in Germany, and his "History of Japanese Literature" (1906), published 18 years after his arrival in Japan. By examining the descriptions in this literary history, it discusses how the knowledge of Japanese classical studies and literature provided by the cooperation of Florenz's Japanese colleagues and disciples, and the descriptive methods of German literary history and language research concepts he himself had acquired, blended and transformed. In this process, the similarities and differences that Florenz finds between Japanese and German literature become the key to interpreting which German and Japanese elements he selects and discards. This book consists of four chapters, in addition to an introduction that organizes German-Japanese Florenz research and presents a post-colonial cultural theory stance. Chapter 1 describes Florenz's career, research cooperation with Japanese people, and trends in drafting Japanese literary history during the Meiji era. Chapter 2 traces the concept and chronological descriptions of "History of Japanese Literature," and discusses the parts where Florenz specifically critiques literary works in relation to discourses belonging to German-Japanese academic traditions. Chapter 3 outlines the theoretical and institutional history of 19th-century German Germanistics, the Department of Oriental Languages at the University of Leipzig where Florenz studied before coming to Japan, and Japanese classical studies during the Meiji era, as far as they relate to the establishment of this hybrid literary history description. Chapter 4 summarizes the entire discussion and interdisciplinary questions the significance of interpreting the hybrid trends of German-Japanese relations related to the origins of modern Japanese literary studies.

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (scientific journal)   Publisher：Japanische Gesellschaft für Germanistik e.V.  

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (scientific journal)  

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (scientific journal)  

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Language：German  

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Event date： 2026.2

Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (invited, special)  

Venue：Kyushu University   Country：Japan  

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Event date： 2025.8

Language：German   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Frankfurt am Main   Country：Germany  

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Event date： 2024.10

Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Kumamoto University   Country：Japan  

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Event date： 2023.8

Language：Japanese   Presentation type：Oral presentation (invited, special)  

Country：Japan  

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Event date： 2022.8

Language：German   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

Venue：Düsseldorf   Country：Germany  

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Award type：International academic award (Japan or overseas)  Country：Japan

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