Product Description: One night, alone on a hilltop, a young boy is swept aboard a magical train bound for the Milky Way. A classic in Japan, this tender fable is a book of great wisdom, offering insight into the afterlife. One of Japan’s greatest storytellers, Kenji Miyazawa (1896–1933) was a teacher, author, poet, and scientist...read more

Product Description: One day, two gentlemen from Tokyo went for hunting and found a rather impressive looking restaurant in the middle of a woods. But there is really something wrong with this restaurant...

Product Description: Two arrogant hunters from the city find themselves in a world where fantasy and reality merge when they enter the Wildcat House Restaurant. The lesson they learn will stay with them forever. This classic tale reaches out to readers of all ages and from all cultures.

Product Description: It is time that Kenji Miyazawa, long recognized as a writer of genius in his own country, enjoyed the same reputation abroad. Are his fables, in which acorns quarrel and flowers fret about losing their looks, written for children or adults? They are for both: for adventurous young minds, but also for older readers in whom the spark of curiosity, combined with a taste for fantasy and a love of language, is still alight...read more

Giovanni and his friend Campanella, who is dead from drowning, travel on a celestial railway which is a ferry of souls journeying to the afterlife

Three stories accompany a selection of poems by the early twentieth century writer

Sixteen short stories with underlying nature themes.