Abstract:

 Dongying Poems, compiled by a famous scholar Yu Yue in the Guangxu years of the Qing dynasty, is a largescale general collection of Japanese Hanpoetry selected from the Chinese perspective. The book has multiple meanings in history. On the one hand, it is the first anthology of Japanese Hanpoetry selected by the Chinese scholar in China; and on the other hand, it is actually the first official general collection in the Japanese history, not only of the earliest publishing date but also of the largest publishing scale. At the same time, Yu Yue writes a number of precise and appropriate comments. What' s more, by virtue of Yu Yue' s unique perspective, the book includes many excellent poems, which are unfortunately ignored by Japanese critics, not only at that time but also at the present. Especially, the book includes many excellent poems of the Edo Period still completely forgotten by Japanese. After the Meiji Restoration, because of Japan' s contempt for its own Han literature as well as other reasons, many collections of the Han poetry Yu Yue read at that time are now hard to find a trace. Therefore, Dongying Poems also plays a role in saving the documents of the Japanese Han literature. Even the Japanese scholar has to use it as the essential book for the research for the Japanese Han literature, not to say Chinese scholars. As the time goes by, this merit and significance of Dongying Poems will be even more clearly. Despite there are insufficiencies for compiling the book, the socalled shortcoming of the "selecting the improper poems", basically speaking, does not exist. Even as far as this is concerned, the book shows its excellence.

Key words: Key words：  Yu Yue; Dongying Poems; Japanese poetry; select; save; merit