Feng You Sanlang (The Eternal Classic Collection of Miyazawa Kenji Fairy Tales)

Author: Kenji Miyazawa
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Legend has it that around September 1st, a wind spirit named Kazutora would descend to the human world. On September 1st, a student named Torao really transferred to the school. This boy with eerie red hair would stir up a mountain wind even when he smiled, making the children suspect he was the wind spirit. Later one day, they actually saw him wearing a glass cloak and glass shoes, leaping into the sky.
In 2000, Japan's Asahi Shimbun conducted a survey where readers voted for their favorite Japanese literary figures of the millennium. Kenji Miyazawa ranked fourth, far surpassing Junzaburō Tanizaki, Fumiko Hayashi, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Kōbō Abe, Kenzaburō ōe, and Haruki Murakami.