Kanshi's importance is as a medium for public exchange on social and political topics. It was created with rhyme-matching exchanges among Japanese and Qing Chinese poets throughout the 19 th century, as seen through exchange of letters and through newspapers.

Kanshi sociality enabled a transnational discourse that gave expression both to notions of shared cultural bonds between Japan and China and to ideas of poetic and cultural nationalism that included rhyme-matching sequences in four or eight lines of seven syllables.

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