caption native_name_lang death_date death_place birth_place nationality native_name birth_date period genre image article_title name occupation death_cause
kenji miyazawa ja 21 september 1933 hanamaki , iwate , japan hanamaki , iwate , japan japanese 宮沢 賢治 27 august 1896 taishō and early shōwa periods children 's literature , poetry miyazawa kenji.jpg kenji miyazawa
 kenji miyazawa writer , poet , teacher , geologist pneumonia
kenji miyazawa

some of his major works include `` night on the galactic railroad '' , `` kaze no matasaburo '' , `` gauche the cellist '' , and `` the night of taneyamagahara '' .
kenji converted to nichiren buddhism after reading the lotus sutra , and joined the kokuchūkai , a nichiren buddhist organization .
his religious and social beliefs created a rift between him and his wealthy family , especially his father , though after his death his family eventually followed him in converting to nichiren buddhism .
kenji founded the rasu farmers association to improve the lives of peasants in iwate prefecture .
he was also a speaker of esperanto and translated some of his poems into that language .
he died of pneumonia in 1933 .
almost totally unknown as a poet in his lifetime , kenji 's work gained its reputation posthumously , and enjoyed a boom by the mid-1990s on his centenary .
a museum dedicated to his life and works was opened in 1982 in his hometown .
many of his children 's stories have been adapted as anime , most notably night on the galactic railroad .
many of his tanka and free verse poetry , translated into multiple languages , is still popular today .
