The reception of Gaspard de la Nuit in Japan The translation and the birth of Japanese poetry in free verse

The reception of Gaspard de la Nuit in Japan has a long and unique history: the work was introduced by Lafcadio Hearn, whose pupil Bin Ueda began translating it as early as 1915, and many translators followed him. The meeting between Japanese writers, who were thinking about the possibilities of freer poetry, and Aloysius Bertrand, who expressed his poetry in prose, led to the development of free verse in Japan.