Among Japanese writers, Yasunari Kawabata, Haruki Murakami, and Junichi Watanabe are all familiar names, but the name Kenji Miyazawa is very unfamiliar. However, in Japan, Kenji Miyazawa is very popular, almost a household name, and even when japan voted for the people's favorite literary artist, his rank far exceeded that of Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, as well as famous writers such as Osamu Dazai and Yukio Mishima.
Kenji Miyazawa's works are so popular because in his pen, the sun is bright, the breeze is warm, the flowers are fragrant, the rivers are clear, the animals are lovely, and human beings are gentle... Kenji Miyazawa leads us through streams, over mountains and rivers with his tender heart, and on a starry night, on a milky way train, to the other side of happiness.
Kenji Miyazawa's "Night of the Galactic Railway" is my favorite in the "Don't Grow Up" series of books, and his words, like Miyazaki's anime, are obsessed with the beauty of this world and the tenderness of human nature.
Kenji Miyazawa came from a wealthy and prosperous family, but he had a different faith from his own family, he believed in Buddhism and compassion, full of a compassionate heart, he was committed to finding happy answers for mankind based on solving the problem of cultivation and cultivation of poor farmers.
He saw that all beings were suffering, he sympathized with every working person who was in it, he deviated from his family to realize his idea of "agricultural prosperity", and on this road, even if it was a painful price, it was worth it in his opinion.
In the chapter of the same name in "Night of the Galactic Railway", Kenji Miyazawa's little protagonist is a child named Joe Benny, who goes to school alone to support his seriously ill mother, and sympathizes with and guards his rich son, Comberella, who is his only friend.
Joe Benny and Cambernella rode on the beautiful Galactic Railway, and out of the window was a landscape: next to the track was a large sea of glowing purple gentian flowers, and a cool transparent phosphorescent river, a field shining with star lighthouses, flocks of egrets flying to the silver sand, the Scorpio fire that never extinguished, and the north-south cross that emitted a soft glow. The bird catcher in the train, the brothers and sisters who got on the train, and one with two young children, the conductor, the ticket inspector, everyone seemed to become friends naturally.
The Galactic Train carries people to its final station, Southern Cross Station, where angels come to pick up passengers and take them to heaven, and after bidding farewell to the other passengers in the car, Joe Benny said:
As long as I can find true happiness for everyone, even if I have bathed in fire a thousand times, I am willing.
But what exactly is true happiness?
Even if Joe Benny wants to find happiness for everyone, he doesn't know what true happiness is, so he can only do his best to find it.
At the same time, Joe Benny thought that Combernella would accompany him all the time, but he did not expect that he would be the only one left in the end.
Kenji Miyazawa wrote about his lifelong desire to find happiness for mankind in "Galactic Railway Night", and also wrote about his isolation and helplessness.
There is also a chapter in "Night of the Galactic Railway", called "Qianshi Park Forest", and the fir forest that Qianshi silently guards is not also the dream that Kenji Miyazawa wants to keep? Qian Ten was ridiculed for the fact that the cedar trees did not grow tall in that field, and Kenji Miyazawa had also been questioned that human happiness was impossible to achieve, right? After The death of Qianshi, people are willing to continue to help him protect it, and Kenji Miyazawa also hopes that after him, there will be people who will love human beings with a pure heart to help human beings reach happiness.
The beauty of Kenji Miyazawa's works became the source of inspiration for Miyazaki's anime, and he was a compassionate, romantic, gentle and sincere idealist. He longs for man to live in harmony with nature, and human beings are forever free from the sea of suffering, no longer bullying, greed, and oppression, which is an ideal happy country after all, so even if he tries his best, it is only a small step towards this goal, but so what? He said in The Night of the Galactic Railway:
No matter how painful and difficult things are encountered, as long as you walk on the right path, no matter the good times and bad times, you can get closer to happiness step by step.