Kenji Miyazawa
Birth date: August 27, 1896
Died: September 21, 1933
Kenji Miyazawa's Books
It's got a bunch of fairytale like stories at the beginning. One involving anthropomorphic railroad signals in love.The main story however is about Giovanni and his trip on the Galactic Railroad with Campanella.Most of the story is fever dream, dream logic style stories involving flat cranes and oth...
Namu myoho renge kyo. This is the mantra of Nichiren Buddhism. It means ‘Veneration to the Sutra of the Lotus of the Wonderful Law.’ To understand Kenji Miyazawa and his marvelous Milky Way Railroad, one must understand his devotion to Nichiren Buddhism. Nichiren Buddhists believe that the whole of ...
Kenzi Miyazawa died in 1933 of tuberculosis. Only 37, he was known only slightly as writer in his lifetime, primarily for his stories for children (in fact, this is how I myself first encountered him, with Night of the Milky Way Railway). Today he is considered one of the greatest Japanese poets of ...
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