Kenji Miyazawa's understanding of life and death expressed in "The Night of the Galactic Railway" is probably related to his frequent reading of philosophical books and Buddhist scriptures. The philosophical ideas that had the greatest influence on him should be the "transcendentalism" of the American thinker Emerson, "transcendentalism" believes that everything in the human world is a microcosm of the universe, and the human soul is consistent with the "super-spirit"; in 1914, Kenji Miyazawa accidentally read the "Hanhe Contrast Lotus Sutra", and he had a deep understanding, and he originally believed in the Pure Land True Sect and turned to the Nichiren Sect (Hokke Sect).
Since I don't know much about "transcendentalism", Nichiren Buddhism (Hohua Buddhism), etc., but from the "soul extradition", the Gate of Heaven is located in the Southern Cross (station), and Kobenella finally disappeared into the "Dark Nebula" - for Joe Benny, here is "nothing" (bleak); and for Kobanela, it is beautiful, and you can see his mother, And Joe Benny's dream is equivalent to the out-of-body these details, Kenji Miyazawa is his past, the universe he yearns for, philosophical contemplation, The understanding of the Buddhist scriptures is finally condensed in this "Galactic Railway Night".
Here's another sentence, in fact, looking at a writer's story, you can peek into a writer's past - its present is actually all the products of ta's past. Correspondingly, if a writer's story does not show a "proper trajectory", it either shows that he is talented or that he has a skill in washing.
In "The Wild Dog", Kenji Miyazawa is portrayed
With secular ideas (such as me) and a family background with a fairly high starting point, Kenji Miyazawa should have inherited the family business, and if he was passionate about literature, he could create without worries in a state of food and clothing.
However, Kenji Miyazawa, who did not want to inherit the family business and squeeze the peasants, once ran away from home and lived a very hard life in Tokyo.
In 1921, Kenji Miyazawa's younger sister Toshiko, who had a deep affection for Himawa, was critically ill, and Kenji Miyazawa returned to his hometown from Tokyo to protect his sister, and found a job as a teacher at the Barnyard Agricultural School.
In November 1922, Toshiko died of illness at the age of 24. Kenji Komiyazawa, 2 years old, is the only relative in the family who can understand him, Toshiko can be described as kenji's spiritual pillar, and the early death of his sister hit Kenji Miyazawa greatly, which not only stimulated Kenji Miyazawa's understanding of life and death, but also deepened his nostalgia for the eternal world.
Kenji Miyazawa (5 years old) and sister (3 years old), 1902
In order to dispel his inner shadow, Kenji Miyazawa later traveled by train to Hokkaido and Minami Sakhalin Island, which became the inspiration for the creation of "Galactic Railway Night"," in which Toshiko's figure naturally loomed, that is, the early death of Kobenela as the only good friend of the protagonist (that is, Kenji Miyazawa).
In 1926, Kenji Miyazawa, who was inspired by the Japanese Empire's military exhaustion and the decline of the countryside, under the guidance of the nichiren Sect's dedication to "persuading people to act for the happiness of all beings in the world", resolutely resigned from his well-paid teaching position and began to devote himself to the peasant movement, trying to use his own strength to improve the miserable situation of local farmers.
Kenji Miyazawa is not only willing to lay down his body and work hard with other farmers every day, but also runs agricultural lecture halls to impart agricultural knowledge; in addition, he also tries to enhance the artistic taste of local farmers by holding fairy tales, concerts, and theatrical events.
Unfortunately, all this was in vain.
As a romantic and compassionate, sincere and gentle idealist, Kenji Miyazawa did everything in the context of that particular era, including, of course, his poems and fairy tales, were too ahead of its time.
Hokkaido SL Winter Shitsugen steam train
According to statistics, Kenji Miyazawa wrote a total of 94 fairy tales and more than 1,000 poems during his lifetime, and the poetry collection "Spring and Shura" and the fairy tale collection "Restaurant That Demands a Lot" were published by him at his own expense and no one cared about them - these two books did not bring him any fame and income, and until Miyazawa's death, they were still piled up in his home.
We can imagine that this genius, whose thoughts and actions are very different from the times, who cannot be understood by his family, and who suffers many misunderstandings from others, especially the farmers who accept Kenji Miyazawa's help and laugh at him, what accompanies him?
lonely.
Double loneliness, both physical and mental.
3 paintings by Gustav Klimt
Here, I can't help but think of two artists who were almost contemporaries of Kenji Miyazawa- [Gustav Klimt] in Austria and Picasso in Spain, who were not completely "born" before their deaths, and could even be said to cater to the times and the public for artistic creation.
To be sure, it is great to create works that are too advanced, but to pursue idealism in the absence of a solid material foundation (the foundation of the times) is legendary to others and tragic to oneself.
Since the bottom core of life is sad [loneliness], can there be fewer tragedies in the world?
Years of physical and mental exhaustion completely crushed Kenji Miyazawa's health.
At the end of 1928, he suffered from lung disease, after which Kenji Miyazawa's condition fluctuated from time to time, and he had to rest in bed for a while. During his convalescence, Kenji Miyazawa continued to actively create and revise until the last moment of his life.
On September 21, 1933, Kenji Miyazawa died unexpectedly at the age of 37.
It is said that his last words were "The lights are so dark tonight!" ”
Thinking of "Galactic Railway Night", Giovanni said, "I want to learn that little scorpion, as long as everyone can get real happiness, even if the body is bathed in fire a hundred times, it will not be spared." ”
Perhaps, Kenji Miyazawa got what he wanted, and finally used his own weak flame of life to finally illuminate the world.
Manuscript of the Galactic Railway Night
Just as Van Gogh had his younger brother Theo behind him, kenji Miyazawa also had his younger brother behind him—although the younger brother did not have the same influence on Kenji Miyazawa as his sister Toshiko—Kenji Miyazawa's younger brother (and his friends) discovered that this "outlier" that was not accepted by the world had created such a magnificent and imaginative and profound work when he was sorting out the messy manuscripts.
The story that followed was no different from the great artists who became famous after Van Gogh's death, and his works began to be valued by the literary world, and the attention and respect of the public also came to the public.
It seems that overnight, Kenji Miyazawa became a household name in Japan, and women and children were well-known.
Various glories, titles, and halos such as "enthusiastic romantic poets, fairy tale masters who have achieved extraordinary achievements, outstanding agronomic reformers, religious thinkers who are compassionate and compassionate, and national writers who represent Japan" began to compensate [Kenji Miyazawa] almost "vengefully", and his poems and fairy tales appeared in elementary schools and junior high school textbooks throughout Japan; not to mention the animation, filmization, and peripheralization of works, the construction of the Kenji Miyazawa Memorial Hall, the route of the "Galactic Railway Journey", and the boom in the study of Kenji Miyazawa (works). As well as the works have been introduced and translated by countries around the world, this book is a bestseller.
Kenji Miyazawa Memorial Hall in Hanamaki City (official website photo)
Perhaps everything in the universe maintains a delicate "balance", how "dim" the light of Kenji Miyazawa's life is like a "charcoal bag", and how bright the light after Kenji Miyazawa's death is - if in Greek mythology, the hero will be raised into the sky after death and become a star (constellation), then Kenji Miyazawa will finally become the star he once looked up to.
However, these have nothing to do with Kenji Miyazawa and seem to have nothing to do with Kenji Miyazawa.
For a "missionary" who has only lived for 37 years and has been fighting alone, the worldly false name is obviously not what he values.
Kenji Miyazawa wrote in the preface to the first published fairy tale collection:
Although we may not have
All the sweets we wanted
But we could eat fresh, clean breeze
Drink the beautiful, peach-colored sunrise
In the woods or fields
I see it often
Tattered clothes become
The best velvet, wool
Or a diamond-encrusted garment
These beautiful foods and clothes
is my favorite
Gifts from rainbows and moonlight