Saneatsu Mushanokōji
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Saneatsu Mushanokōji was a Japanese novelist, playwright, poet, artist, and philosopher active during the late Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan. Later on in life he requested that the pronunciation o
Saneatsu Mushanokōji
Atarashiki-mura
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Atarashiki-mura is a Japanese utopian community founded by the author, artist and philosopher Saneatsu Mushanokōji, which has been approved as a foundation by the local government after its establishm
Saneatsu Mushanokōji
…step in the development of his philosophy by moving to the mountains of Kijō, Miyazaki in Kyūshū, and establishing a quasi-socialistic utopian commune, Atarashiki-mura (New Village) along vaguely Tolstoyan lines. Soon afterwards, he published Kōfukumono (幸福者, A Happy Man) (1919), a novel presenting his image of the…
Entrance to Atarashiki-mura
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