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In Miyazawa Kenji and His Illustrators, Helen Kilpatrick examines re-visionings of the literature of one of Japan s most celebrated authors, Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933). The deeply Buddhist Kenji's imaginative dowa (children s tales) are among the most frequently illustrated in Japan today. Numerous internationally renowned artists such as Munakata Shiko, Kim Tschang-Yeul and Lee Ufan have represented his stories in an array of intriguing visual styles, reinvigorating them as picture books for modern audiences.

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Helen Kilpatrick, Ph.D. (2004), is a lecturer in Japanese at the University of Wollongong (Australia). She has recently published on constructions of transculturalism and visual representations of the shojo (girl) in Japanese fiction.

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