Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet (born 1896)

Kenji Miyazawa

Japanese writer (1896–1933)

Kenji Miyazawa 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.