Abstract: In early modern Japan,as the Ancient Rhetoric School gradually lost its popularity,the poetic style imitating Tang and Ming Dynasty poetry began to give way to a new style of simplicity.Bai Juyi’s poetry,which had been ignored by the poetic circles of Edo for a long time,now became a model for various poets,among which ōnuma Chinzan of the late Tokugawa Shogunate was a typical example.ōnuma Chinzan,not only using the same rhyme sequence,but also trying to absorb Bai Juyi’s poetic techniques on t...