Night Train to the Stars: beloved, enigmatic Japanese folk tales

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When I have children, I would like to read it to them on a stary night and it will be a beautiful night. People who fail to choose the right religion fall into hell, become demonic ilk, or are reborn as animals” (336). As a boy he was fascinated by glimpses of the modern industrial world - train lines and telegraph poles running into the distance - and he hoarded scientific information.

Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) was born and raised in Iwate, a rural part of Northern Japan, largely cut off from the modern world. In “Home,” Giovanni expresses pride in “ the big crab shell and the reindeer antlers” his father donated to the school (29). A child recounts the story behind Scorpio: a scorpion who preys on insects flees from a weasel and, after falling down a well, regrets not having sacrificed itself to feed the weasel, a good cause. Gift giving is an essential aspect in Japanese culture for fostering social connections between friends and business partners. He started working on this novel soon afterward in 1924, and this trip is said to be the basis of the story.Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.

En la traducción que he leído se incluyen extractos de una versión anterior, lo que me resultó sugerente, porque dan una visión mejor de la intención del autor, aunque evidentemente decidió simplificar la historia eliminando la mayor parte de las "prédicas". Four versions are known to be in existence, with the last one being the most famous among Japanese readers. Gracias como siempre por la invitación y por elegir libros interesantes para descubrir y debatir en grupo. The Coal Sack is an area of complete blackness resembling a hole in the galaxy, a hole in the heavens.

Giovanni is a lonely boy whose mother is bedridden with illness and whose father is said to be either away on a long fishing trip or serving a prison sentence. Japanese fairy tales – enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world . Miyazawa has a background of greeneries and delved in the farming industry and his love for it shone within the collection. Giovanni speaks to Campanella's father, who says his son has been lost in the water too long to be saved. The theme begins early in the story with the excavation of fossils at the Pliocene Seashore, perhaps even earlier with the reference to “ the big crab shell and reindeer antlers” (29) that were a gift from Giovanni’s absent father.