Kenji Miyazawa

Miyazawa Kenji was born on 27 August 1896 in Hanamaki, in Iwate Prefecture, into a well-off family of pawnbrokers. After studying agronomy in Morioka, his reading of the Lotus Sutra shaped his Buddhist faith. A teacher at the Hanamaki agricultural school from 1921, he left it in 1926 to farm the land and founded, with young peasants, an association for agricultural and artistic education. During his lifetime, he published at his own expense only one collection of poems and one book of tales, in 1924. Suffering from tuberculosis, he died of pneumonia in 1933.

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• NarrativeNight on the Galactic Railroad銀河鉄道の夜Kenji Miyazawa · 1934LiteraturePublic domain