Although Japanese kanshi rapidly declined during the twentieth century, intellectuals who received an education of sinology such as Soseki NATSUME, Ogai MORI and Atsushi NAKAJIMA had a taste for kanshi.
20世紀以降は急速に衰退したが、夏目漱石や森鴎外、中島敦ら漢学教育を受けた文化人は漢詩をたしなんだ。