Abstract

“Ame ni mo makezu”(Rain won't） is one of the most famous poems in the Japanese language. The poem in translated English are designed in the picture on pages, and the original Japanese is aslo shown at the bottom of the pages.
“In creating this book, Koji Yamamura and I attempted to “illustrate the obvious." The paintings provide a living, visual ecosystem that, for Kenji, went without saying. while translating the poem into English, I was moved by how modern it felt, and Ezra Pound's words came to mind:" Literature is news that STAYS news."
〜(from afterword by translator Arthur Binard)

Author’s Information

・Kenji Miyazawa：Japanese famous children tale writer.
・Arthur Binard:He was born in Mishigan US 1967.He started writing poetry in high schoo,and studiedEnglish Literature at Colgate University. An interest in the ideogram led him to Japan in 1990.His first book of poems in Japanese, Tsuriagetewa, was awarded the Nakahara Chuya Prize in 2001.He has translation, essays and many other books.
・Koji Yamamura:He was born in Nagoya Japan 1964.A passion for drawing took hold of him from an early age, and he began making animated films as a teenager. At Tokyo Zokei University he studied painting and delved into the works of the world's great animators.He took a place among the world’ s top animation filmmakers.He has been worked for international jury a lot.