23. Miyazawa Kenji "Asahikawa." yori [From Miyazawa Kenji's "Asahikawa"]

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Author
Written and illustrated by Abe Hiroshi
Publisher
BL Shuppan
Year
2015
NDL call number
Y17-N15-L202
Commentary
This book took 8 years to complete from its initial conception. The creator of this work reinterprets and recreates Miyazawa Kenji's poem "Asahikawa", which Miyazawa authored when he visited Asahikawa. The pale green sky conveys the sadness of Miyazawa, who had just lost his sister, and the chill of the early morning air.