Translation Works
To Japanese
AUTHOR
Kenji Miyazawa
 
Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) was born in Iwate. In 1917, he started a coterie magazine Azalea with his friends and published poems and short stories. Then he started working as a teacher at Hanamaki Agricultural High School. Five years later, he quit the job and, in 1923, he published his works including a children's story Signal and Signaless in Iwate Mainichi Shimbun. In the following year, he published an Ihatov tale Chumon no Oi Ryoriten (The Restaurant of Many Orders). In 1928, he was diagnosed as an acute pneumonia and was bedridden for a while. In 1933, his condition deteriorated and he took his last breath.
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