Miyazawa Kenji and His Illustrators: Images of Nature and Buddhism in Japanese Children's Literature (Japanese Visual Culture)

In Miyazawa Kenji and His Illustrators , Helen Kilpatrick examines re-visionings of the literature of one of Japans most celebrated authors, Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933). The deeply Buddhist Kenji's imaginative dwa (childrens tales) are among the most frequently illustrated in Japan today. Numerous internationally renowned artists such as Munakata Shik, Kim Tschang-Yeul and Lee Ufan have represented his stories in an array of intriguing visual styles, reinvigorating them as picture books for modern audiences.