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International
Institute forChildren’s
Literature,
Osaka

NO.2 Ｏｃｔｏber 2012

forLooking Back at the Second Year
Miyake Okiko, Chief Director

Inside this issue:

I would like to thank you for the fact that we could

Looking Back at the Second Year1

finish the second year of the new organization.

13th International Brothers
Grimm Award to Be Presented
to Professor Jian Feng
2

Although it is still difficult to make a long term

Australian
PictureBook
Shaun Tan in a Spotlight Visit
to Japan3

working on various projects and have submitted ourWinners of the 28th NissanChildren’s
StorybookandPicture Book Grand Prix
4
KITAMURA TAKEKO FUND
Memorial Projects
4financial forecast, we have been energetically
income and expenditure report. (Please refer to our
Webpage.)
One of our new activities in 2011 was the
preparation for the movement to “General Incorporated Foundation” fromnext April in line with the new system of a nonprofit foundation.
Every odd-numbered year we present the International Brothers Grimm

Hon Navi Kids, Book Research
System5

Award. The 13th recipient is Professor Jiang Feng from China. He edited theLectures and Activities for
Reading Promotion
5such as an outline and history of Chinese children’s literature. He also spent

Events for Children

6

Mail Magazine

7

Research Projects

7

Publications

7

We Are Together

8encyclopedia of Chinese children’s literature and published many works,
half a year at our institute as a visiting fellow in 1993. After returning to his
country, he established a research institute of children’s culture like ourin

On October 13th 2011 Prof. Masafumi Nakagawa,

Zhejiang Normal

who was our special advisor and had been actively

University where

involved in our institute for many years, passed

he

for

away at the age of 90. His accomplishments weremany years. He

wide may; his children’s literature and picture books;

trainedmany

his research and criticism dealing with children’sandculture; his creative works and practical activities

authors there. We expect a researcher who is taught

like puppet shows; his training a lot of researchers

by Prof. Jiang Feng will win the Grimm Award in theand authors; and his religious works and lectures tonear future. We hope this unique award under thename but a few. For our foundation, he left behind a

joint auspices of the Kinranj-kai Foundation andgreat legacy including the rich exchanges with

Osaka Prefectural Otemae Senior High School

various people which stemmed from his rich personal

Alumni will continue for a long time.

connections, and performances in

In Appreciation
Donations

of

Book
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institutetaughtresearchers

1

Yume-no-Iketheater. We will continue to make them known to thewill mark the end of the three year transitional

public. Our first step is classifying the books heperiod. With this unique project, supported by the

donated and making a list of the materials.

power

of

our

researchcapability

and

our

With regard to our own self-generated projects, we“comprehensive professional knowledge” we would

have realized our plan for producing a publication

like to contribute to the advancement of children’s

and started up the editorial committee. Next year

literature and culture.

13th International Brothers Grimm Award to Be
Presented to Professor Jiang Feng
The International Brothers Grimm Award ispresented

bytheInternational

Instituteinto children’s literature in China and contributed toforthe development and improvement of that research .

Children’s Literature, Osaka and the Kinran-kai

He also has widely worked as a central figure in theFoundation and Osaka Prefectural Otemae Senior

field of research of children’s literature in Asia.

High School Alumni Kinran-kai every other year to

He has taught in Zhejiang Normal University

an individual who has contributed significantly tosince 1952, was a pioneer of children’s literature,and

the international progress of the research ofhas made every effort to train researchers ofchildren’s literature.

children’s literature, as a result, researchers and

The 13th award in 2011 was presented to Professor

editors were produced in large numbers.

Emeritus Jiang Feng at Zhejiang Normal University

Professor Jiang Feng has written many books

in China and an award presentation ceremony and abased on his research of children’s literature such ascommemorative lecture were held.

Introduction to Children’s Literature（1982）Chinese

Date: December 11th, 2011

Modern History of Children’s Literature（1987）,The

Place: Osaka International House Foundation

Development History of Children’s Literature（2007）.

Recipient: Professor Jiang Feng

In addition he edited Encyclopedia of Children’s

Lecture:“TowardTomorrow’s

Literature in the World（1992）.

Dream—Past,

Present, and Future in Chinese Children’sHe played an important role in the 10th Conference

Literature”

of Asian Children’s Literature Association held at
Zhejiang Normal University in October, 2010 andhas disseminated information on Chinese children’s
literature via many international conventions, suchas the Conference of Asian Children’s Literature
Association

and

the

International

Symposium

between China and Japan in 1985 .
Participants: 102<Outline of the Commemorative Lecture>
Prof. Feng summarized the history of and<Reason for the award>

prospects for Chinese children’s literature.

Prof. Jiang Feng established a base for research2He equated the period of its origins with the

He

paid

singing of a lullaby, and placed the end of the 19th

attentiontocentury as the period of “waking”. A new stream of

traditional

thought appeared via the May Forth Movement in

Chinese1919, which enabled authors of children’s literature

culturewho saw children as human beings to come to thevalued the works which seemed to be authenticallyfore. In this period the new understanding ofChinese, also looking at the coexistence of minority

children gained by Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren showedraces and nature. He went on to explain how hewhat could be achieved.

expected to see fantasy stories with particularly

In 1978 with the implementation of the ChineseandChinese characteristics to appear.

Economic Reform, the “present” period began. Yan

After the lecture, “Chinese Children’s Literature, an

Wenjing and Cao Wenxuan took a lively part in this,interview with Prof. Jing Feng” was held with Prof.

and from the 1980s to the 90s authors aimed to make

NARUYMI Tomoko and our Chief Director Miyake

works of great artistry rather than ones ofOkiko.

enlightenment.

Australian Picture Book Author Shaun Tan in a
Spotlight Visit to Japan“Beyond words—The Power of stories told by pictures”
Picture book author Mr. Shaun Tan talked about＊ Support: Osaka Prefecture

how he became a picture book author and what kind

Kodomo-Bunko Renrakukaiof works he has made, showing pictures. We also

＊Subsidized project of Kodomo

screened his short animation film.

Yume Fund Project

Date: October 15th, 2011

＊This project was supported by

Place: Osaka Prefectural Central Library Meetingthe following companies: The

Room

Kansai Electric Power Co. Inc.,

Lecturer: Shaun Tan (Australia)

Kintetsu Corporation, Suntory Holdings Limited.,

Participants: 85

Panasonic Corporation, Fujitsu Tohoku Systems
Ltd., Musashi-I-Techno Ltd.

○ Copies of the report are available for 800 yen

Make a Picture Book with Australian Picture Book Author Shaun Tan!
＊Subsidized project of Kodomo Yume Fund

Date: October 16th, 2011
Place:

Osaka

Prefectural

CentralLibrary

Meeting RoomFirst Mr.

Participants: Primary school children 26,

secrets

adult 32ofparticipants

3

Tan talked about his books and themakingcreatedpicturebooks,

amazingandthencreaturesbycombining two familiar things. They made a story
about the creature they had imagined and created a
picture book. Mr.

Tan gave them useful and kindadvice as they worked on their stories.

Winners of the 28th Nissan Children’s Storybook and
Picture Book Grand Prix
The Nissan Children’s Storybook and Picture Book Grand Prix, sponsored by IICLO with the co-operation of Nissan
Motors, is highly valued as the gateway to success for new authors as well as contributing to the promotion ofstorybooks and picture books.
The winners of the 28th Grand Prix were announced and the awards ceremony was held at Nissan Hall in Nissan
Global Main office on March 4, 2012. The following works were chosen from 2,052 volumes submitted in the Storybook
Category and 398 volumes submitted in the Picture Book Category. The Grand Prix works will be published by BL
Publishers in December, 2012.
☆In the Storybook Category＊Grand Prix＊

Master in the Idle Way by TAKESHITA Eiko☆In the Picture Book Category＊Grand Prix＊

Picchi and Rita A Midnight Circus by NAGAO Takuma●The books by the winners of the 27th Grand Prix were

Left: Aya and Yuki , written by INAGAKI Fusako,

published by BL Publishing in December, 2011

illustrated by AOI Yoshimi
Right: An Angel at the Bottom of the Sea by
MATSUMIYA Kenji

KITAMURA TAKEKO FUND Memorial Projects
Due to Kitamura Takeko’s love of children’s literature, she made large donations to help us run the Foundation. We
published IICLO BULLETIN as memorial projects.

IICLO Bulletin No.25
IICLO advertised for articles on children’s literature for IICLO Bulletin No.25 and two articles are accepted.
<Contents>
Kinjiro Ninomiya and His Portrait : The Process of an

Explanatory Notes on Specific Items in the Magazine

Exemplary figure's Formation

Shonen (Boys) (No. 4)

by KAKIMOTO Masayo

4by ENDO Jun

Description and History of a Nursery Rhyme Called

Grimm Award >Niramekko

by TAKAYAMA Rintaro

Jiang Feng “Toward Tomorrow’s Dream—Past, Present,

Actuality of Concept of Shosetsu (Novel) in Nihon no

and Future in Chinese Children’s Literature” (Chinese andShonen (Japanese Boys)

Japanese Versions)by MEGURO Tsuyoshi<Research Note>

The Japanese translation and notes are written by ASANO

People Who Had Relationships with MORITA Tanzan, an

Noriko.

Editor of Youth Pictorial Magazines : Using an Article by
TAKAHASHI Gozan in Tanzangafu (Tanzan's Picture

Report on a Research Project : The Study of the History ofCollections) as a startChildren's Publishing Culture in the Meiji, Taisho, andby TAKAHASHI Yoko

Showa Periods : By Examining Letters of an Ex-editor of< The commemorative lecture of International Brothers

Hakubunkan

by DOI Yasuko

Hon Navi Kids, Book Research System“Hon Navi Kids (Book Navigation for Kids)” is a system

can be accessed from IICLO web page.

where children play on the internet, choosing words andfeelings to find the books they like.

This project is being conducted in collaboration with the

They can not only

Fujitsu Tohoku Systems.

play the game with Kyabetsu-kun and Butayama-san,popular characters drawn by Cho Shinta, but choose
keywords and find out about books.
IICLO independently drew up the keywords and theoutlines of stories. In 2011 we added 813 titles. The system

Lectures and Activities for Reading Promotion
1. Dispatch IICLO Staff for Lectures(3) Being a judge for the 30th competition for poems and

IICLO dispatched our staff to give 63 lectures onbookreports

connected

with

human

rights.

children’s books, children’s reading promotion etc. for(Organized by Osaka prefecture, Education Council oflibrarians, school librarians, teachers, volunteers andOsaka prefecture, and Committee for Human rights

parents, which includes 24 lectures for the Liaison

in Osaka).

Council for the Promotion of Children’s Reading Activity(4) Being a committee member of the Media Art digitalin Osaka Prefecture.

Archive Project (Organized by the Ministry of

2. Judging and committee member duties

Culture).

(1) Being a committee member of the Liaison Council for(5) Being a member of JBBY Award Selection Committee

the Promotion of Children’s Reading Activity in(6) Being a judge for the seventh Osaka Children’s Book

Osaka PrefectureBand contest (Organized by Osaka reading promotion(2) Being a judge for the 21st Mino hand-madecommittee and Asahi Newspaper)

Kamishibai contest (Organized by Mino city and Hito
to Hon wo Tsumugu Kai)

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Events for Children
Story MonorailAuniqueevent“StoryMonorail”

where

Play Circle Paletteparticipants enjoyed stories in a reserved monorail

Support:Osaka

carriage and watched a puppet play in Saito was the

Monorail Co., Ltd.,

5th time the event had been held in 2011.

Commemorative

Date: November 6th, 2011

Organization for theParticipants: 240

Japan World Exposition ’70, Hankyu Realty Co.,

Performers: IICLO staff, Ohanashi-Poppo, Puppet

Ltd.

Storytelling sessions and workshops(1) Let’s Experience the Old Kamishibai and Children’s

school students

Books!

“Let’s make an original picture book and give a

We held an event for

presentation”

looking at picture books

Date: July 27th and 29th, 2011of the Taisho Period andPlace: Osaka Gakuin University

Gaito-Kamishibai(5) Making a Picture Book about Forests

enjoyed in the 1950s, which included reading picture

We enjoyed a story-telling session themed “forest”,

books and performing Kamishibai.

explored a forest picking up many things, and both

Date: August 6th, 2011

children and adults made a “Forest Picture Book”.

Place: Osaka Prefectural Central Library Meeting Room

Date: March 10th and 11th, 2012

Performers: Sanyukai and IICLO staff

Place: Osaka Prefectural Syonen Shizen-no-Ie

Supporters: Osaka Prefectural Central Library and(6) Gaito Kamishibai at a show homes site

Sanyukai*Kodomo-Yume Fund Project

Gaito Kamishibai by Sanyu-kai was shown to families(2) At Osaka Prefectural Central Library

who came to the Hanahaku Show Homes Site on May 8th,

Six story-telling sessions, one puppet show and one

2011 and Sptember 24th,2011. It was organized by theworkshop for children were run at the Children’s reading

Osaka Jutaku Centre Foundation.

room by IICLO staff and the volunteers.

(7) Story-telling session and workshop in a primary(3)Story-tellingsessionandworkshop

in

Osaka

school, a children’s home and a library・ Story-telling session at children’s home (once):

Prefectural Children’s Museum Big Bang
We held four story-telling sessions and a workshop

Performer, Ohanashi Poppo“Let’s enjoy the world of Jogoku-no-Sobei (by Tajima

・ Story-telling session at Suita City Yamada-ekimae

Yukihiko, Doshinsha)” connected with the “Exhibition of

Library (once): Performer, Ohanashi Poppo

Original Paintings of Tajima Yukihiko Picture Books” on

・ Experiensing stories workshop at Toyonaka City

September 23rd.

Higashioka Primary School for primary school pupils(4) Making a Picture Book Workshop with junior high(five times)6(8) Children’s story exchanges between China, Korea,

IICLO staff devised a workshop for making picture books

and Japan were held Beijing and Shanghai in China andtogether (August 17th to 23rd in 2011).

Mail Magazine
IICLO has issued mail magazines since September, 2010. Subscription is free, and we are looking forward to yourregistration. As of June 2012, the number of subscribers was 835. The contents are as follows.
<Contents>
1. Information from IICLO

4. Web sites for children’s literature research

2. Yasuko & Okiko’s Talk on a recent published children’s

5. Places to go related to children’s literature and culturebook

6. Information of events on children’s literature and3. Introduction for volunteers who read picture books toculture in Japan

children

Research Projects
Research Project on Children’s Magazines in the Meiji and Taisho Periods
The IICLO is conducting the joint project with

the Meiji period, which the project made with the aid of a

researchers from outside the institute to study children’s

subsidy from Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research in 2008.

magazines from the Meiji period, such as Shonen Sekai,

・ Research meetings: 3 times

using the database of the contents in these magazines from・ One article was inserted in IICLO Bulletin No. 25

Research Project on the History of Children’s Book Publishing in the Meiji, Taisho andShowa Periods
NANBU

Hirokuni,anex-editorofHakubunkan

applied for the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research andPubulishing left many valuable letters from authors andselected for 2011-13.

illustrators. The IICLO conducts a joint project with・ Research meetings: five times

researchers from outside the institute to study them and・ One article was inserted in IICLO Bulletin No. 25

Publications☆ A Collection of Excelent Works from “Kodomo no Kuni”☆IICLO Publications

vol. 3-5 (Planning and cooperation of Hearst Fujingaho Co.,・“Reports on an International Exchange Project inLtd.)

2011: The Fascination of Australian Picture Books:☆Shinken Seminor’s 1000 Recommended Children’s Books

Shaun Tan talks about His Work, Let’s Make a7

Picture Book with Australian Picture Book Author

2010: Symposium Picture Books in Asia “PictureShaun Tan”

Books Cross

Borders—Picture Books in Chinese

Speaking Countries Now”

・ “Reports on an International Exchange Project inetc.

We are Together
Books for children who were hit by the earthquake in East Japan
In the catastrophic earthquake that devastated the Pacific

Literature, Osaka, Osaka Booksellers Association, The

coast of north-eastern Japan on Friday, March 11, 2011,

Mainichi Newspapers, Mainichi Newspapers Tokyo, Osaka,schools and kindergartens were also extremely damaged

Seibu Syakai-Jigyo- Danand books and picture books for children were lost. The

Period: April 26th, 2011 to the end of March, 2012

IICLO collected donations from many people and chose

Donations: 1,562 --and purchased books according to the number and age ofBook donations from authors and publishers: 10 --children of the various institutions and the number of

24,745,393 yen

870 copies

books they wanted, and sent them with book covers.

The number of institute given: 339 - nursery schools,
kindergartens, primary schools, junior high schools etc.

Sponsorship: International Institute for Children’s

The number of books given: 19,036

In Appreciation of Book Donations
We received many donations of Children’s books and materials about them from publishers, authors, researchers andsmall magazine circles. The number was 1.5 times as many as last year. These materials were taken over by Osaka
Prefectural Central Library International Institute for Children’s Literature, Osaka for preservation in perpetuity and areopen to the public.
The number f donations of this year
Books
4,779
Magazines
3,555
Others
1,021
Total
9,355 items
Toni Duijx (Netherlands)
University Leiden, Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen(Netherlands)
Centro Internacional del Libro Infantil y Juvenil (Spain)
Svenska barnbosinstitutet (Sweden)
Schweizerisches Institut für Kinder-und Jugendmedien(Switzerland)
高 明美(Taiwan)
Mark Jones (U.S.A.)

蒋 風 (China)
熊 亮(China)
Lastenkirjainstituutti (Finland)
Suomen Nuorisokirjallisuuden Instituutti (Finland)
Denise Escarpit (France)
Nous Voulons Lire/C.R.A.L.E.J.(France)
Ｇallimard Ｊeunesse (France)
Internationalen Jugendbibliothek (Germany)
Kestutis Urba (Lituania)

The International Institute for Children’s Literature, Osaka, 2012
Translated by FUKUMOTO, Yukiko
All Japanese names in the News appear in the traditional order, surname followed by given name.

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