Cover news reporter Wang Hui
Kenji Miyazawa was a well-known Japanese poet and fairy tale writer, but Kenji, born on August 27, 1896, died on September 21, 1933, at the age of 37. Most of his magnificent fairy tales and poems, such as "Night of the Galactic Railway" and "Kazesaburo", were published after his death, through the efforts of his younger brother Kiyoroku Miyazawa and the poet Kusanagi.
Recently, Reading Culture launched the "Kenji Miyazawa Galaxy Fairy Tale" all 6 volumes of boxed collector's edition, which comprehensively collects 59 stories written by Kenji Miyazawa, which is the most complete version on the market at present, which can be called the essence of Kenji Miyazawa's life. At the same time, emerging illustrator Yang Jiahao Kaho painted a full set of illustrations, including 6 cover scene covers and 24 children's fun interpolations, which maximally expressed the essence of Kenji Miyazawa's text.
Kenji Miyazawa ranked fourth in the 2000 Asahi Shimbun's "Popular Japanese Writers of the Past Thousand Years" poll, surpassing Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Osamu Dazai, and others; "Cosmic Poet of the Showa Period" Shuntaro Tanigawa praised him as a poet "close to greatness." His works have been translated into fourteen languages and compiled into Japanese elementary and junior high school language textbooks, accompanying generations of teenagers.
Many modern artists have found inspiration in Kenji Miyazawa's works, among which Miyazaki once created a classic picture of the sea train in "Spirited Away" and referred to the scene depicted by Kenji in "Night of the Galactic Railway".
In addition to poets and fairy tale writers, Kenji Miyazawa held many identities during his lifetime: agricultural technology instructor, geologist, and religious thinker. He wrote ninety-four fairy tales and more than a thousand poems in his lifetime, an astonishing amount for his short life.
Kenji Miyazawa was born in the village of Satokawaguchi (present-day Hanamaki City), Barnyard County, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, and his first encounter with fairy tales was when he was in elementary school. His class teacher at the time, Eizo Yagi, often told fairy tales to his students, and when he reunited with the teacher, he said: "The foundation of my fairy tales and nursery rhymes was created in the third and fourth grades of elementary school. ”
After graduating from high school, Kenji went to Morioka Higher Agricultural and Forestry School to continue his studies. While focusing on his studies, he experimented with literary creation, and published poems and short stories in the magazine "Yingshan Hong" founded by alumni. In August 1918, he wrote two fairy tales, "Spiders, Slugs and Raccoons" and "Gemini".
In December 1921, Kenji became a teacher at the Iwate Prefectural Hanamaki Agricultural School. In the magazine "Patriotic Woman", which was published that month, he published the fairy tale "Crossing the Snow Field" and received 5 yen. This 5 yen is the only manuscript fee he received during his lifetime. In December 1924, his only publicly available collection of fairy tales, The Restaurant with Many Rules, was published, and 1,000 copies were printed but could not be sold at all, and Kenji Miyazawa borrowed 300 yen from his father to buy 200 copies.
Kenji, who aspired to financial independence, ran away from home twice from the age of 25, the first time less than a year after returning home due to his sister's illness, and at the age of 26 began working as a teacher at an agricultural school. Four years later, he resigned again and left home and moved to Shimoneko Sakura to live alone. He teaches local agricultural school graduates and people who are passionate about agriculture and fertilizers, and he also gives concerts and organizes orchestra practices. "Agriculture" and "music" have also become the two major themes of Miyazawa's fairy tales. In August 1928, Kenji fainted from a high fever and was diagnosed with bilateral lung wetness, and had to return to his hometown for convalescence again.
Two years later, Kenji's health improved, he resumed his once-interrupted literary production, and worked as a technician in a gravel factory. Perhaps too much toil, 7 months later, he fell down again, never to leave the hospital bed, and wrote the famous poem "Not Afraid of Wind and Rain" on the hospital bed.
In 1932, Kenji published the fairy tale "The Biography of Gusco Budoli" in the second volume of Children's Literature. He seems to be conscious of his fate, and in this fairy tale, the master announces that Dolly finally sacrificed himself for the happiness of his sister and the peasants of the world. In September 1933, when Hyun-san's illness deteriorated, he gave all his original manuscripts to his younger brother Kiyoroku and instructed, "If any small bookstore comes up with it, you can help me out." On September 21 of that year, Kenji stopped breathing, and his life was forever frozen at the age of 37.
Kenji lived his life with ideals, but he lived like an ascetic, he did not ask about gains and losses, he burned himself up, just to pursue the ultimate happiness of mankind.
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