The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. Miyazawa Kenji: Selections collects a wide range of his poetry and provides an excellent introduction to his life and work. Miyazawa was a teacher of agriculture by profession and largely unknown as a poet until after his death. Since then his work has increasingly attracted a devoted following, especially among ecologists, Buddhists, and the literary avant-garde. This volume includes poems translated by Gary Snyder, who was the first to translate a substantial body of Miyazawa’s work into English. Hiroaki Sato’s own superb translations, many never before published, demonstrate his deep familiarity with Miyazawa’s poetry. His remarkable introduction considers the poet’s significance and suggests ways for contemporary readers to approach his work. It further places developments in Japanese poetry into a global context during the first decades of the twentieth century. In addition the book features a Foreword by the poet Geoffrey O’Brien and essays by Tanikawa Shuntaro, Yoshimasu Gozo, and Michael O’Brien.

Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)

Literature & Fiction

Miyazawa, Kenji

History & Criticism

University of California Press

The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. Miyazawa Kenji: Selections collects a wide range of his poetry and provides an excellent introduction to his life and work. Miyazawa was a teacher of agriculture by profession and largely unknown as a poet until after his death. Since then his work has increasingly attracted a devoted following, especially among ecologists, Buddhists, and the literary avant-garde. This volume includes poems translated by Gary Snyder, who was the first to translate a substantial body of Miyazawa’s work into English. Hiroaki Sato’s own superb translations, many never before published, demonstrate his deep familiarity with Miyazawa’s poetry. His remarkable introduction considers the poet’s significance and suggests ways for contemporary readers to approach his work. It further places developments in Japanese poetry into a global context during the first decades of the twentieth century. In addition the book features a Foreword by the poet Geoffrey O’Brien and essays by Tanikawa Shuntaro, Yoshimasu Gozo, and Michael O’Brien.

Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (Poets for the Millennium) (Volume 5)

Sato, Hiroaki

One day, two gentlemen from Tokyo went for hunting and found a rather impressive looking restaurant in the middle of a woods. But there is really something wrong with this restaurant...

The Restaurant of Many Orders

Smith, Seika Marie

Children's Books

Seika Marie Smith

Three stories accompany a selection of poems by the early twentieth century writer

Future of Ice: Poems and Stories of a Japanese Buddhist

Religion & Spirituality

NORTH POINT PRESS

Sixteen short stories with underlying nature themes.

Winds from Afar (English and Japanese Edition)

Kodansha USA Inc

Giovanni and his friend Campanella, who is dead from drowning, travel on a celestial railway which is a ferry of souls journeying to the afterlife

Night of the Milky Way Railway

Routledge

From Wikipedia: Night on the Galactic Railroad (Ginga Tetsud

Ginga Tetsudo no Yoru (Japanese Edition)

Contemporary

lulu.com

A collection of classic, fantastical tales from Northern Japan that are equal parts whimsical and sophisticated, perfect for readers of all ages. Kenji Miyazawa is one of modern Japan’s most beloved writers, a great poet and a strange and marvelous spinner of tales, whose sly, humorous, enchanting, and enigmatic stories bear a certain resemblance to those of his contemporary Robert Walser. John Bester’s selection and expert translation of Miyazawa’s short fiction reflects its full range from the joyful, innocent “Wildcat and the Acorns,” to the cautionary tale “The Restaurant of Many Orders,” to “The Earthgod and the Fox,” which starts out whimsically before taking a tragic turn. Miyazawa also had a deep connection to Japanese folklore and an intense love of the natural world. In “The Wild Pear,” what seem to be two slight nature sketches succeed in encapsulating some of the cruelty and compensations of life itself.

Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa (New York Review Books Classics)

Genre Fiction

NYRB Classics

Two arrogant hunters from the city find themselves in a world where fantasy and reality merge when they enter the Wildcat House Restaurant. The lesson they learn will stay with them forever. This classic tale reaches out to readers of all ages and from all cultures.

R I C Pubns Asia Co Inc

Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world.\nDark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as 'The Ungrateful Rat' where a rude rodent insults all the objects he meets - until he meets the Rat Trap/ There are morality tales such as 'The Restaurant of Many Orders', where two hunters become the hunted. There are also transcendent stories of childhood and mortality like Miyazawa's best-known 'Night Train to the Stars', where a magical steam train carries children through the night and up to the heavens.\nThese stories reveal the unique brilliance of one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writers.\nWITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID MITCHELL AND AN INTRODUCTION BY KAORI NAGAI\n'Kenji Miyazawa fables are international-class' David Mitchell\n'For readers who relish the disturbing material of fairy tale, the specificity and surprise of tanka, collisions of the everyday with the supernatural and glimpses of Japan right on the brink of industrialization, Kenji Miyazawa's masterly stories will be a delight' New York Times\n'Few works have given me so much pleasure (and hard work) as the tales of Miyazawa Kenji [...] more genuine originality, and a more universal appeal, than almost anything else I have done.' John Bester, translator

Night Train to the Stars: beloved, enigmatic Japanese folk tales

Vintage Classics

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Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)

Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (Poets for the Millennium) (Volume 5)

The Restaurant of Many Orders

Future of Ice: Poems and Stories of a Japanese Buddhist

Winds from Afar (English and Japanese Edition)

Night of the Milky Way Railway

Ginga Tetsudo no Yoru (Japanese Edition)

Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa (New York Review Books Classics)

The Restaurant of Many Orders

Night Train to the Stars: beloved, enigmatic Japanese folk tales