Around the time of the Meiji Restoration, when many western books were imported, many vocabularies which had Chinese origin were adopted as they were translated, so there was a time when Chinese poetry became popular.
明治維新のころも、西洋の文物を輸入するときに、翻訳語として漢文に源流をもつ語彙が多く採用されたこともあって、漢詩が流行した時期もあった。