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International
Institute forChildren’s
Literature,
Osaka

NO.10 September 2020

Inside this issue:
For the Future of Children’s Booksa nd Ch il d ren’ s C ul tu re1
17th International Brothers Grimm
Award Presented to Professor Miyake
Okiko
2
Korean Picture Book Author Park
Jong-chae’s Visit to Japan
3
Lecture about the History ofKamishibai
4
Lecture Series: History of British
Children’s Literature with Visual
Images4
On the Jury of the Hans ChristianAndersen Award 2020
5
The Winner of the 36th NissanChildren’s Storybook and PictureBook Grand Prix
5
IICLO Bulletin No.33
6
Lectures and Activities for Reading
Promotion
6
Events for Children
7
Activities for Reading Promotion 8
Mail Magazine
8
You Tube “IICLO Channel”
8
Research Projects
9
Publications and Websites
9
In Appreciation of Book Donations 11

For the Future of Children’s Books and Children’s Culture
Miyakawa Takeo, Chief Director

The corona virus pandemic is still ongoing. I
imagine that everyone is feeling anxious andis

fed-up with the inconvenience . Still, I hope you are
all doing well.
More than ten years have passed since theInternational Institute for Children's Literature,
Osaka (IICLO) restarted after moving its officefrom Osaka prefectural International Institute for Children’s
Literature in Suita City Expo Park, Osaka to Osaka Prefectural
Central Library in 2010 because of abolishment of the Institute in
Suita. In collaboration with the newly opened the Center forInternational Children’s Literature, Osaka Prefectural Central
Library, we have been developing various activities with the aim ofpromoting children's literature and culture.
Our foundation was like a small boat rowing into rough seas, but
thanks to everyone who supports us and other kindred organizations
we have managed to continue on our voyage for these ten years.
forOver the last decade, the Foundation has

operating

IICLO

was

zero

from

the

prefectural

after

the

move,

accumulated sucesses including the promotion of

government

thechildren's books and children's reading activities

organization has been substantially been reduced

through the development of educational materials,

in size, and is able to keep running by drawing on

international projects through children's books,

the donations we have received.

and research and publishing activities. We have

However, the maintenance of the foundation

just started the 18th International Brothers Grimm

continues to be difficult. Since the consignment fee

Award with the Kinran-kai Foundation. The 37thfor

Nissan Children’s Storybook and Picture Book

government

Grand Prix has also started and IICLO Bulletinorganization has been substantially been reduced

No.33 has been published.

in size, and is able to keep running by drawing on

However, the maintenance of the foundation

operating

IICLO

was

zero

from

the

prefectural

after

the

move,

the

the donations we have received.

continues to be difficult. Since the consignment fee

In 2017 and 2018, IICLO had a deficit in the1

700,000yen range. In 2019, the economic situation

profits, but on the occasion of the 10th anniversary

was slightly better, but the outlook had not beenof the restart, we will continue to ask for donations

fundamentally

situationfrom a wide range of benefactors. Cultivating thecontinues, the Foundation will not survive for

future of children's books and children's culture isanother ten years. We are feeling a sense of crisis.

nothing less than the creation of the future of thisHow can we get out of the foundation's financial

country. We would like to find the future viability

crisis and enrich our activities related to theof the Foundation and create a new decade for thepromotion of children's books and children's

Foundation. We sincerely ask for your support andculture? We are making various efforts to makecooperation.

improved.

If

this

17th International Brothers Grimm Award Presented toProfessor Miyake Okiko
The International Brothers Grimm Award isliteraturepresented by the International Institute forandpicturebooks,

comparative

children’s literature, mainly between English

Children’s Literature, Osaka and the Kinran-kai
Foundation and Osaka Prefectural Otemae SeniorHigh School Alumni Kinran-kai every other year to
an individual who has contributed significantly tothe international progress of the research ofchildren’s literature.
The 17th award in 2019 was presented toProfessor Miyake Okiko, Professor Emeritus of
Baika Women's University and Special Advisor of
IICLO and an award presentation ceremony and acommemorative lecture were held.
Date: November 9th, 2019speaking countries and Japan, studies on thePlace: Muto Memorial Hall at Kokumin Kaikan

arrival and acceptance in Japan of children’s

Recipient: Professor Miyake Okiko (Japan)

literature from around the world, and research

Lecture: Rethinking the History of Japanese

into the relationship between picture books andChildren's Literature through the Theory of thechild readers in Japan, all of which have made a

Reconstruction of the History of British Children's

vast

Literaturedevelopment of research in the field.

Participants: 176

contribution

to

the

promotionandHer main works published in book form are; A

History of Picture Books in Britain (1993), Another<Reason for the award>
Prof. Miyake is in every respect an outstanding

History of British Children’s Literature (2004), andscholar of international children’s literature andRobert Westall (Biography of Modern English

picture books. She has been a tireless organizer

Children’s Literature Series, 2008).

and initiator of numerous international research

Prof. Miyake has organized many research

activities on children’s literature.

projects in Japan and guided many Japanese

Her research areas are the history of children’s

researchers. These efforts have resulted in books2

such as The Study of “St. Nicholas”, Children’sof the International Institute for Children’s

Magazine in the U.S.A. (1987), The Establishment

Literature, Osaka between 2010 and 2015.

of Japanese Picture Books for Children (1997),<Outline of the Commemorative Lecture>

Where Picture Books and Children Meet; Ten

Starting from an article called "Mrs. Dalloway

Years of Home Library at a Kindergarten (2006), A

and V. Wolf's Fairy Tale" written when Prof.

Study of Picture Books and Pictorial Magazines in

Miyake was at Otani Women's Junior College, she

the Taisho Period (2009), A Study of Picture Books

talked about the paths of her research andPublished by Koguma-sha (2013).

explored a wide range of them, including research

She

has

also

been

activeinpromotingon British children's literature, picture books,

international children’s literature by holding anchildren's culture, its readers, and its history.

exhibition of original pictures of Japanese picture

In her lecture, she mentioned she had been

books

serving as

thinking whether the subject of research should bechairperson on the Executive Committee of the“children's literature” or “children's books”. She

Fourth Pacific Rim Conference on Children’s

also pointed out that we have accepted a very

Literature Kyoto, Japan.

limited amount of children’s literature frominBritainin 2001

andProf. Miyake has been the president of the

English speaking countries, much of which had

Association for Studies of Picture Books and thecultural biases. She ended her lecture with somepresident of Japanese Society for Children’s

suggestions for the future of research of children’s

Literature in English as well as the chief director

literature.

Korean Picture Book Author Park Jong-chae’s
Visit to Japan
We invited the outstanding Korean picture book author Mr. Park Jong-chae to give a lecture and run aworkshop for children.
Lecture: Let’s Talk about Park Jongchae’s WorkIn the first part, Mr. Park Jong-chae read his
picture book, called Toads Are Walking,accompanying himself by

beating a drum, andthen talked about his picture books by showing
images from them. In the second part, Mr. Park
Jong-chae, the translator of Toads Are Walking;
Hiromatsu Yukiko and Shin Myong-Ho talked
about the book. On the next day of the lectures, aworkshop in which primary school children’s
madea picture book was held with Mr. Park Jongchae.
＜Lecture＞
Date: July 20th, 2019
Place: Osaka Prefectural Central LibraryParticipants: 61

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＜Workshop＞

companies: Suntory Holdings Limited., Fujitsu

Date: July 21st, 2019

Systems Application & Support Ltd., and Musashi-

Place: Osaka Prefectural Central Library

I-Techno Ltd.

Translator: Shin Myong-Ho＊Subs idized project of Kodomo Yume Fund

Participants: 13＊Copies of the report of the lectures are available＊ This project was supported by the following

for 1000 yen.

Lecture about the History of Kamishibai
AsaokaYasuou,alecturerat

Shirayuri

University gave a lecture about the history ofKamishibai. Kamishibai has been very popularamong children since before the World War II andhas offered many kinds of stories to children.
Asaokatalkedabout

howKamishibaihas

influenced children’s reading culture.
＊Co-sponsor: International Library of Children's

The title: Children's Reading Culture from the

Literature, Osaka Prefectural Central LibraryView Point of Kamishibi’＊Subsidized project of Kodomo Yume Fund

Date: November 30th, 2019

＊Copies of the report of the lecture are available

Place: Osaka Prefectural Central Libraryfor 800 yen.

Participants: 52

Lecture Series: History of British Children's Literature
with Visual Images
The lecturer Miyake Okiko introduced her very

Britain.

valuable collection of historical British children’s◆ 3rd lecture: July 5th, 2020

books and gave three lectures about the history ofChildren’s Books in Britain in the 20th Century

British children’s literature.

Place: Osaka Prefectural Central Library

In order to comply with the measures for the

Lecturer: Miyake Okiko (Special Advised of IICLO

prevention of the spread of thecoronavirus , weand Professor emeritus of Baika Women's College)

postponed the second and the third lectures to theParticipants: 123 (including watching a video

next academic year.

image on line)◆1st lecture: January 25th, 2020

＊Subsidized project of Kodomo Yume Fund (1stStarting with the Very Beginning of Children’s

lecture)Books in Britain.

＊Copies of the report of the lectures are available◆2nd lecture: July 5th, 2020

for 1400 yen.

The First Golden Age of Children’s Books in4

On the Jury of the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2020
Doi Yasuko, a director of IICLO and JBBY

every other year by IBBY, the Hans Christian

member was appointed to be a jury-member for theAndersen Awards recognize lifelong achievement

Hans Christian Andersen Award 2020, which wasand are presented to an author and an illustrator

organized by IBBY and she participated in the jury

whose complete works have made an important,meeting held in Munich, Germany.

lasting contribution to children's literature. There

The Hans Christian Andersen Award is theare ten members of the jury, from Australia, Egypt,

highest international recognition given to an

France, Russia, and the U.S.A. etc.

author and an illustrator of children's books. Given

The Winner of the 36th Nissan Children's Storybook and
Picture Book Grand Prix
December, 2019.

The 36th Nissan Children’s Storybook and
Picture Book Grand Prix, a storybook and picture

In the Storybook Categorybook contest for new authors, was held and 38

Kujira Sukui (Scooping up a Whale) text byworks were chosen.

Minagi Kumiko, illustrated by Tanaka Yasuhiro .

＊There were 2,044 entries ; 2,402 volumes in the
Storybook Category and 358 volumes in the
Picture Book Category☆In the Storybook Category＊Grand Prix＊

Nasubi wa Nani Iro (What colour is Aubergine?)by Yamamoto Izumi☆In the Picture Book Category＊Grand Prix＊

In the Picture Book Category

Kutsuyasan to Obake (A Shoe Maker andPino-chan to Samu-samu Neko (Pino and a Cat

Monsters) by Iwasaki Satoko

Who is Sensitive to the Cold) by Matsuoka Ko.

Award Ceremony was canceled because of theprevention of spread of new coronavirus infection.
In cooperation with Nissan Motor Corporation＊The books by the winners of the 35th Grand Prix
both in the Storybook Category and the PictureBook Category were published by BL Publishing in
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IICLO Bulletin No. 33
IICLO advertised for articles on children’s literature for IICLO Bulletin No.33 and three out of six
articles were accepted.
<Contents>
The Control of Extracurricular Reading in Social

Josei (Girls at Primary School), and Shojo no

Education in the Taisho Period. by Meguro

Tomo(Girls' Friend): In the Taisho Period. by

TsuyoshiMatsumoto Ikuko

Explanatory Notes on Specific Items in the

The Consumption of Comics as Seen from

Magazine Shonen (Boys) No.8. by Endo Jun

Children's Reading Surveys before and during theReaders' Colum in Nippon Shonen (Japan Boys):

Showa-war Period. by Miyamoto Hirohito

Through Comparison with Other Magazines. by【Report on Research Project】

Doi Yasuko

Studying the History of Children's Publishing

Grimm’s Fairy Tales and German Legends in the

Culture: The Role of Jitsugyo no Nihonsha.

Engelien Readers: Focusing on the First Japanese【Lecture for the International Grimm Award】

Translations. by Koizumi Naomi

Rethinking the History of Japanese Children's【Reports】

Literature

Visual Images of Cover Illustrations of Yonen no

Reconstruction of the History of British Children's

Tomo (Friends with Young Children), Shogaku

Literature. by Miyake Okiko.

throughthe

TheoryoftheLectures and Activities for Reading Promotion
1. Dispatch IICLO Staff for Lectures

Newspaper)

IICLO dispatched our staff to give 43 lectures to(2) Serving as a judge for the 29th Mino hand-madelibrarians, school librarians, teachers, volunteers

Kamishibai contest (Organized by Mino city board

for children’s book activities, parents and peopleof education and Hito to Hon wo Tsumugu Kai)

who are interested in children’s books, giving(3) Serving as a judge for the “The composition ofadvice on book selection and reading promotion,

experiences that expand the Kokoro-no-wa “circle

running a course on conveying the pleasure ofof the heart” (Kokoro-no-wa) 2019 contest (Osakabooks and participating in reading clubs etc.

prefecture welfare department)(4) Serving as a judge for the 38th competition for

2. Study Meetings with School Librarians

poems and book reports connected with human

Eleven meetings were held with 26 schoolrights. (Organized by Osaka prefecture, Education

librarians in Osaka. The themes are book selection

Council of Osaka prefecture, and Committee forand reading promotion.

Human rights in Osaka)(5) Serving on the book selecting committee of

3. Judging and Committee Member Duties

Smile with Picture books Project by the Osaka(1) Serving as a judge for the 15th Osaka

Izumi Co-operative Society.

Children’s Book Band contest (Organized by Osaka
readingpromotioncommittee

and

Asahi

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Events for Children
Story Monorail

A unique event “Story Monorail” was held in which
participants enjoyed stories in a reserved monorail
carriage and watched a puppet play in Saito. The
2018 “Story Monorail” was the thirteenth event inthis series.
Date: September 21st, 2019
Participants: 240
Performers: IICLO staff, Ohanashi-Poppo, Puppet
Play Circle PaletteSupport: Osaka Monorail Co., Ltd., Hankyu Realty
Co., Ltd.
＊Subsidized project of Kodomo Yume Fund
Storytelling sessions and workshops(1) Event for looking at old Kamishibai
We held an event with a performance of GaitoKamishibai.
Date: October 5th, 2019
Place: Osaka Prefectural Central Library
Performers: Shiozaki Otogi Kamishibai Museum
staff

Host: Osaka Prefectural Central Library and(3) Story-telling session and workshop in a primary

IICLO

school and a library

Supporter: Shiozaki Otogi Kamishibai Museum

・ Story-telling session at Suita City Yamada-(2)Six story-telling sessions, and one puppet show

ekimae Library (twice): Performer, Ohanashi

were run at the Children’s reading room in Osaka

Poppo

Prefectural Central Library by IICLO staff,

・ Conducting five story workshops for primary

Ohanashi-Poppo, Puppet Play Circle Palette.

school pupils at Toyonaka City Higashioka
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Primary School etc.

(4) Story-telling session in a children’s homes

Place: Beijing (China)

・One story-telling session at a children’s home:

Host: The Executive Committee of Children’s story

Performer, Ohanashi Poppo,

exchanges between Japan, China and Korea.

(5) Children’s story exchanges between China,(6) Participation in planning of foundation projects

Korea, and Japan were held in China and IICLO

by Ohanashi Poppo and Puppet Play Circle Palette

staff devised a workshop for making picture books

Volunteergroupsbelonging

to

IICLO

together. (August 17th to 23rd in 2019).

participated in the planning of various projects to

Participants: 100

connect children with books.

Activities for Reading Promotion
Based on “The promotion plan of children’s reading

staff gave a lecture called "Books for All Children"

activities” that was promoted by Osaka prefecture,(at Osaka Prefectural University, October 1, 2019.

IICLO participated in various activities.

IICLO

Mail Magazine
IICLO issues a mail magazine around the 20th of each month. Subscription is free, and we hope you willsubscribe. As of August 20th 2019, there were 3,386 subscribers. The contents are as follows.
<Contents>
1. Information from IICLO

are introduced.

2. Column(4) Places to go! :(1) Talk on a recently published children’s book:

Reports on exhibitions, films and lectures related

IICLO professional staff talk about a new bookto children’s literature and culture 3. Information

with specialists in children's literature.

about events on children’s literature and culture(2) Essays on children's literature:in Japan: introducing events by other groups

An essay written by the chief director and the

3. Information about events on children’s literature

IICLO professional staff on children's literature,and culture in Japan: introducing events by otherfor example on the work of Miyazawa Kenjigroups(3)A Treasury of Words in Children's Books:

4. Present: A book chosen by lottery is introduced

Impressive words and phrases in children's books

in “Talk”

You Tube “IICLO Channel”
IICLO opened You Tube channel in April, 2020
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgPj7D2ReQ0J03zhMMLfuIA).
For children, one or two children’s book introductions are uploaded
in a program called “Adventures in the Sea of Books” every Friday.
For adults, the book review is uploaded every month.
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Research Projects
Studying the History of Children's Publishingspecial researcher, Doi Yasuko, IICLO senior

Culture: The Role of Jitsugyo no Nihonsha

researcher

The IICLO is conducting a joint project with＊ The project applied for the Grants-in-Aid forresearchers from outside the institute to study

Scientific Research and was selected for funding

Jitsugyo no Nihonsha publishing.

through 2017-20.

・Research meetings: 3
・Four articles were printed in IICLO Bulletin

Research project on lantern slide culture in

No. 33Showa Japan・Research members: Asaoka Yasuou, professor

・Research members: An Ni, special professor ofof Shirayuri University, Kagawa Msanobu,

Japan Institute of Moving Image, Okada

curator of Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Hisory,

Hidenori, researcher of National Museum of

Kakimoto Mayo, lecturer of Jin-Ai University,

Modern Art, Tokyo, Kamiya Makiko, researcher

Sakai Masayo, professor of Aichi Shukutoku

of National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Toba

University, Matsumoto Ikuko, curator of Kariya

Koji, professor of Waseda University, Doi Yasuko,

City Art Museum, Meguro Tsuyoshi, assistantWashitani Hana, special researcher of IICLO.

professor of Kobe University, Miyakawa Takeo,＊ The project applied for the Grants-in-Aid forchief director of IICLO, Endo Jun, IICLO special

Scientific Research and was selected for funding

researcher/ associate professor of Mukogawa

through 2019-22.

Women's University, Komatsu Satoko, IICLO

Publications and Websites
Hon Navi Kids, Book Research System

Book Making Workshops for Kids”, “Adventures in“Hon Navi Kids (Book Navigation for Kids)” is a

the Sea of the Books”, and “The Adventure ofsystem where children play online, choosing words

Finding Secrets of Manga” for our internet systemand feelings to find the books they like.

supported by Justice Co.

IICLO independently drew up the keywords andContracted cooperative work for planningby publishers

the outlines of stories. In 2019 we added 1616 titles.

・Editorial supervision for a pamphlet called

This project is being conducted in collaboration
with Fujitsu Systems Applications & Support

Smile With Picture Books by the Osaka Izumi Co-

Limited.

operative Society.

Picture Book Making Workshops for Kids
Adventures in the Sea of Books
The Adventure of Finding Secrets of Manga

Recommended Children’s Books
Shinken Seminor’s Internet Library

IICLO maintains internet system called “Picture

select recommended books for an internet library.

for

IICLO was asked by Benesse Corporation to9

Materials issued by IICLO

・Reports on Serial Lectures: History of British

・Reports on an International Exchange ProjectChildren’s Literature with Visual Images byin 2013: “Picture Book Author Lauren Child

Miyake Okiko.

Talked about her Works—My worries are

1,400yeninfinite” / Let’s Make a Picture Book with・Reports on Lectures: Children's Reading

British Picture Book Author Lauren Child

Culture from View Point of Kamishibi’ byAsaoka Yasuou.

1,000 yen

800yen・Reports on the forum “Keep Exploring

・Reports on an International Lecture: Let’s Talk
about Park Jong-chae’s Work.

Children’s Literature and Culture—Looking

1,000 yenback on the works of Nakagawa Masafumi,

・Reports on Lecture: Children’s Literature for

Young Children by Miyake Okiko.

scholar of children’s literature”.

1,000yen

1,400 yen・Reports on an International Exchange Project・Reports on an Lecture: The Way to Illustrate

in 2012: The World of David Wiesner, Picture“Fantasy”: The World of Aman Kimiko &Book Author—Pictures Talk, Making a Picture

Tomiyasu Yoko.

Book with Picture Book Author David Wiesner

1,000 yen

1,000 yen・Reports on an International Lecture: BelgianChildren’s Literature.

・Reports on an International Exchange Project

800 yenin 2011: The Fascination of Australian Picture

・Reports on the Lecture : Children’s Literature

between the U.S.A. and Japan.

Books: Shaun Tan talks about His Work, Let’s

1,200 yen

Make a Picture Book with Australian Picture

・Reports on Lectures: Appeal of German

Book Author Shaun Tan.

Children's Literature From Bush and Ende to
the Present Authors.

・Reports on an International Exchange Project

800yenin 2010: Symposium Picture Books in Asia

・Reports on an International Exchange Project“Picture Books Cross Borders—Picture Books

in 2017 : International Forum : Looking at thein Chinese Speaking Countries Now”

History of American Children's Literature.

500 yen

1,000 yen

・IICLO Bulletin No. 1-33

・Reports on an International Exchange Project

1,000 yen – 1,900 yen

in 2015 : “Picture Book Author Emily Gravett

・A Collection of Essays, Reports on symposium

Talked about her Works—Living in Pictures” /Picture Books in Taiwan.

Let’s Make a Picture Book with British PictureBook Author Emily Gravett!

1,900 yen・Reports on symposium the Present of World

1,000 yen

Picture Books, A Collection of Essays, Picture

・Reports on the forum “Keep Asking What

Books in Thai.

Children’s Literature ; Looking back on theworks of Professor Torigoe ”.

1,000 yen

1,000 yen10

1,900 yen

In Appreciation of Book Donations
We have received many donations of Children’s books and materials about them from publishers,
authors, researchers and small magazine circles. These materials were taken over by Osaka Prefectural
Central Library International Institute for Children’s Literature, Osaka for preservation in perpetuity
and are open to the public.
The number of donations of this year
Books

2,780

Magazines

3,083

Others

1,347

Total

7,210 items

Our thanks go to;
Robin Morrow（Australia）
Lastenkirjainstituutti (Finland)Internationale Jugendbibliothek (Germany)
Jong-Chae Park（Korea）
Kestutis Urba (Lituania)
IBBY-Nederlands (Nederlands)
高 明美 (Taiwan)

The International Institute for Children’s Literature, Osaka, 2020
All Japanese names in the News appear in the traditional order, surname followed by given name.

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