WRITER

Kenji Miyazawa

1896 - 1933

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Kenji Miyazawa (宮沢 賢治 or 宮澤 賢治, Miyazawa Kenji, 27 August 1896 – 21 September 1933) was a Japanese novelist, poet, and children's literature writer from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, vegetarian, cellist, devout Buddhist, and utopian social activist. Some of his major works include Night on the Galactic Railroad, Kaze no Matasaburō, Gauche the Cellist, and The Night of Taneyamagahara. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenji Miyazawa has received more than 523,356 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Kenji Miyazawa is the 1,177th most popular writer (up from 1,373rd in 2019), the 259th most popular biography from Japan (up from 312th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Notable Works

Ginga tetsudō no yoru
1985
Once and Forever
Translations into English
1993
Miyazawa Kenji
Translations into English, Criticism and interpretation
1967
The Restaurant of Many Orders
2006
Miyazawa Kenji shishū
1963
Shinshū Miyazawa Kenji zenshū
1979

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 1,177 out of 7,302. Before him are E. Howard Hunt, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Giovanni Papini, Francesco Maria Piave, Sadriddin Ayni, and Joachim du Bellay. After him are Hristo Botev, Arne Garborg, John Jacob Astor IV, Ephraim Kishon, Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, and Jacint Verdaguer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 55. Before him are Nikolay Semyonov, André Masson, Wallace Carothers, Paulino Alcántara, Friedrich Hund, and Léon Theremin. After him are Soghomon Tehlirian, David Wechsler, Elsa Triolet, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, Ida Noddack, and Kazimierz Kuratowski. Among people deceased in 1933, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 21. Before him are Stefan George, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Knud Rasmussen, Oskar Potiorek, Anatoly Lunacharsky, and Erhard Heiden. After him are Hipólito Yrigoyen, Paul Painlevé, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Erik Jan Hanussen, and Albert Calmette.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 259 out of 6,245. Before him are Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Yoshio Okada (1926), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), Masaru Ibuka (1908), Emperor Senka (467), and Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853). After him are Emperor Tsuchimikado (1196), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Kōki Hirota (1878), Emperor Ingyō (376), Suzuki Harunobu (1725), and Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 24. Before him are Kobayashi Issa (1763), Shoko Asahara (1955), Mori Ōgai (1862), Shūsaku Endō (1923), D. T. Suzuki (1870), and Yosano Akiko (1878). After him are Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Yosa Buson (1716), Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Chūya Nakahara (1907), Ryū Murakami (1952), and Ihara Saikaku (1642).

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