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Kenji MIYAZAWA
宮沢賢治

Born: August 27, 1896  (Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan)
Died: September 21, 1933, aged 37 (Hanamaki)
Poet and author of fantasy/children's literature. Worked as a teacher at Hanamaki Agricultural College.
Major works: Night on the Milky Way Railroad, The Restaurant of Many Orders, Gauche the Cellist, Wildcat & the Acorns, Ame-ni-mo makezu etc.


List of works by Kenji published by Little J Books

  1. Gauche the Cellist
    セロ弾きのゴーシュ
  2. The Nighthawk Star
    よだかの星

  3. Kenju's Forest Playground
    虔十公園林
  4. The Restaurant of Many Orders
    注文の多い料理店
  5. Wild Pear -Yamanashi
    やまなし
  6. Ame-ni-mo makezu
    雨ニモマケズ

Kenji Miyazawa is one of Japan’s best known and well-loved writers and poets. He was born in what is now Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, in 1896. Although the eldest son of a wealthy pawnbroker and landowner, Kenji was a deeply spiritual person, and when he wasn’t writing, volunteered a great deal of his time teaching farmers how to improve their crop yields, or organizing concerts for classical music in his local village. He was a prolific writer who completed hundreds of works, but only a small collection of those were published while he was still alive, his reputation as one of Japan’s greatest storytellers only coming after his death in 1933, aged 37. 



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