Ame ni Mo Makezu (Kenji Miyazawa's picture book series) Mook – 2017/10/10 Kenji Miyazawa (Author), Samiro Yunoki (Illustration)
[en] ● Item No. 17-1136-979 ● Specifications ● Number of pages: 40 pages ● Picture: Samiro Yunoki Born in Tokyo in 1922. Professor Emeritus of Joshibi University of Art and Design. Having a father as a Western-style painter, he studied art history at the University of Tokyo, but his studies were interrupted by the war, and after the war he worked at the Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, his hometown. There, he became friends with Soetsu Yanagi, who leads the Mingei movement. After that, he studied under Serizawa Kasuke and worked on stencil dyeing. In addition to stencil dyeing on cloth, he also challenges various prints and glass paintings, and is active in a wide range of genres such as picture book and poster production, binding and illustration. Katazome wallpaper won the Bronze Award at the Brussels World's Fair in Belgium in 1958, and the 1st <Kenji Miyazawa Award> in 1990. He has been holding a solo exhibition in Paris since 2008, not only in Japan. In 2015, many works were stored in the Guimet Oriental Museum in France. Received the "Children's Space International Book Award" in 1996 for the picture book "Magic Words" (Eskimo Words Hisao Kanaseki / Translated by Craft Space). (The book was published in the Fukuinkan Shoten edition in 2000) "Sennen Mannen" (Mado Michio / Poetry Theory) won the "Sankei Children's Book Culture Award Art Award" in 2009. Other picture book works include "Toko to Goo Goo to Kiki" (Ado Murayama / product), "Tsukiyo no Ongakukai" (Yosuke Yamashita / product), "Then Then" (Fukuinkan Shoten), and "Ado Murayama" (Ado Murayama). / Saku Bunka Shuppan Bureau), "Zetsubo no Muddy Point" (Munenori Harada / Last year's educational picture drama), etc. ● Target age from 6 years old