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Kenji Miyazawa

1896 - 1933

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Kenji Miyazawa (宮沢 賢治, Miyazawa Kenji; Japanese pronunciation: [mʲi.ja.(d)za.wa (|) keꜜɲ.dʑi], 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. Miyazawa converted to Nichiren Buddhism after reading the Lotus Sutra, and joined the Kokuchūkai, a Nichiren Buddhist organization. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kenji Miyazawa is the 1,441st most popular writer (down from 1,176th in 2019), the 448th most popular biography from Japan (down from 259th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among writers, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 1,441 out of 7,302. Before him are Rainis, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Tarjei Vesaas, James Anderson, Marcel Aymé, and Jeppe Aakjær. After him are Hierocles of Alexandria, Guillaume de Lorris, Francesco Maria Piave, Du Mu, Christine Nöstlinger, and Javier Marías.

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Among people born in 1896, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 66. Before him are Heo Jeong, Julien Duvivier, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, Elsa Triolet, Kazimierz Kuratowski, and Norodom Suramarit. After him are Aleksei Antonov, Karl August Wittfogel, Frederick Browning, Henri de Lubac, Otto Hofmann, and Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff. Among people deceased in 1933, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 28. Before him are Hipólito Yrigoyen, Erhard Heiden, Frank Jarvis, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, Erik Jan Hanussen, and Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi. After him are Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Anna de Noailles, Carl Correns, Henry Royce, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, and Albert Calmette.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 448 out of 6,245. Before him are Jisaburō Ozawa (1886), Kinjiro Shimizu (null), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950), Nobuyoshi Araki (1940), Tsuyoshi Kunieda (1944), and Matsumura Sōkon (1809). After him are Emperor Go-Kameyama (1347), Kazumi Takada (1951), Atsuyoshi Furuta (1952), Yusuke Omi (1946), Tokugawa Ietsuna (1641), and Noboru Takeshita (1924).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 27. Before him are D. T. Suzuki (1870), Sugawara no Michizane (845), Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Ono no Komachi (825), Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653), and Ihara Saikaku (1642). After him are Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Ueda Akinari (1734), Akiyuki Nosaka (1930), Ryū Murakami (1952), Yosano Akiko (1878), and Shūsaku Endō (1923).

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