NIWA JUN’ICHIRO

Niwa, family name Oda, Jun’ichiro studied abroad in Great Britain immediately following the Meiji Restoration and, upon returning to Japan, published Karyu shun’wa (A Spring Tale of Blossoms and Willows, 1878). This work, an adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s rambling Ernest Maltravers, was one of the earliest Western novels redone into Japanese and exercised a strong impact on subsequent translations.

See also ADAPTIVE TRANSLATIONS.