Author: Miyazawa Kenji
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Night of the Milky Way Railway
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.
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Milky Way Railroad
Kenji is swept aboard a magical train, representing the soul’s passage to heaven, where he meets many of the recently departed. He will only be allowed to return to Earth when he dreams of being reunited with his father. This translation celebrates the centennial of the author’s birth.
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Winds from afar.
Sixteen short stories with underlying nature themes.
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Once and forever : the tales of Kenji Miyazawa
The magic of Miyazawa’s tales reaches out to people of all ages and lands. The sophisticated reader can savor them consciously as literature, while the younger reader can delight in them as imaginative stories that comment on and deepen his own experience. The underlying themes are universal, but the forms and treatment can be appreciated…
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Miyazawa Kenji : selections
The poet Miyazawa Kenji was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who is known for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. This book collects his poetry and provides an introduction to his life and work. It includes poems translated by Gary Snyder. It features a Foreword by the poet Geoffrey O’Brien.
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Strong in the rain : selected poems
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Spring & asura; poems of Kenji Miyazawa.
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A future of ice : poems and stories of a Japanese Buddhist