Miyazawa Kenji's Buddhist Nature:
the pictorialised Kenji
Research program: Culture and Representation
My research is in the area of Japanese children's literature and my main project at present is the reworking of my PhD thesis into a book which essentially offers an unusual reading of one of Japan's most renowned authors, Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933). By focusing on a selection of the stories which are most often published as picture books for children in Japan, it analyses how illustrations can shape story and how audience is influenced by these unique combinations of verbal and pictorial narrative to take certain viewpoints from which to read such texts. Because Kenji is renowned as a predominantly Buddhist author, the book compares how the vastly disparate artists respond to his non-humanist philosophies.
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