Kenji Miyazawa
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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, v
Kenji Miyazawa
Miyazawa Kenji (top right) and the editorial staff of the student agricultural magazine "Azalea", 1917.
Miyazawa Kenji standing in a paddy field as a teacher of Hanamaki Agricultural School.
Esperanto
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Esperanto is the world's most widely spoken constructed auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 as 'the International Language', it is intended to be a universal second language for inte
Kenji Miyazawa
…to Nichiren Buddhism. Miyazawa founded the Rasu Farmers Association to improve the lives of peasants in Iwate Prefecture. He was also interested in Esperanto and translated some of his poems into it. He died of pneumonia in 1933. Almost totally unknown as a poet in his lifetime, Miyazawa's work gained its…
Zamenhof, c. 1895
7th Esperanto congress, Antwerp, August 1911
The Republic of Rose Island in the Adriatic Sea used Esperanto as its official language in 1968; it has since been demolished
Esperanto books at the World Esperanto Congress, Rotterdam 2008