Miyazawa Kenji and his illustrators : : images of nature and Buddhism in Japanese children's literature / / by Helen Kilpatrick.

• Superior document: Japanese visual culture ; volume 7
• VerfasserIn: Kilpatrick, Helen,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Japanese visual culture ; v. 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Miyazawa Kenji and His Illustrators , Helen Kilpatrick examines re-visionings of the literature of one of Japan’s most celebrated authors, Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933). The deeply Buddhist Kenji's imaginative dōwa (children’s tales) are among the most frequently illustrated in Japan today. Num...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary material
• Introduction
• 1: The Signifi cance of Miyazawa Kenji’s Ideals in (Post-) Modern Japanese Children’s Literature
• 2: Reading Japanese Visual Art and Picture Books
• 3: The Tale of ‘Wildcat and the Acorns’ (Donguri to Yamaneko): Self and Subjectivity in the Characters and Haecceitas in the Organic World
• 4: Beyond Dualism in ‘Snow Crossing’ (Yukiwatari)
• 5: Kenji’s ‘Dekunobō’ Ideal in ‘Gōshu, the Cellist’ (Serohiki No Gōshu) and ‘Kenjū’s Park’ (Kenjū Kōenrin)
• 6: Beyond the Realm of Asura in ‘The Twin Stars’ (Futago no Hoshi) and ‘Wild Pear’ (Yamanashi)
• 7: The Threat of Erasure through Material Embeddedness in ‘The Restaurant of Many Orders’ (Chūmon no Ōi Ryōriten)
• Conclusion
• Endnotes
• Bibliography
• Index.