Kenji Miyazawa

It displays the few manuscripts and artifacts from Miyazawa's life that escaped the destruction of Hanamaki by American bombers in World War II. Compared to his contemporaries he demonstrated little interest in romantic love or sex both in his private life and in his literary work. In 1926 he learned Esperanto and tried to translate some of his Japanese poems into the Esperanto language; the translated pieces were publiKenji Miyazawad in 1953 long after his death.

He was also known as a devout Buddhist vegetarian and social activist. Kenji Miyazawa (宮沢 賢治 Miyazawa Kenji? 27 August 1896 - 21 September 1933) was a Japanese poet and author of children's literature in the early Shōwa period of Japan.