On the fourth day of the fourth month of the water lily season

Author: Kenji Miyazawa
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Japan's Andersen, a lonely and romantic master of children's literature. A wondrous literary and spiritual world of a fairy tale genius, the birth and fall of a fairy tale superstar. On the fourth day of the sixth month of the water lily month, the terrifying snow witch flew over from the distant west, and instantly everything turned white. A child wrapped in a red carpet was blown down by the blizzard and stuck in the snow, unable to get out. At that moment, the snow spirit, the Snow Child, rushed over and covered the child completely with snow.
In 2000, Japan's Asahi Shimbun conducted a survey where readers voted to choose their favorite Japanese literary figure of the millennium. Kenji Miyazawa ranked fourth, far surpassing Junzaburō Tanizaki, Fumiko Hayashi, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Kōbō Abe, Kenzaburō ōe, and Haruki Murakami.