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Beyond dualism: towards interculturality in pictorialisations of Miyazawa Kenji's 'Snow Crossing' (Yukiwatari).

Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) is one of Japan's most renowned authors and his many children's stories (dowa) represent a Buddho-animist quest for a more integrated cosmos. In his desire for this kind of holism, Kenji was largely writing against all the forms of scientific rationalism that, by his day, had entered Japanese consciousness through intellectual thought and new forms of Naturalist literature. (For further discussion of this prevalence see, for example, Keene 1984, Chapters 11 & 16). Such rationalist modes of thought formed the foundation for a society that Kenji saw as responsible for many inequalities. Despite, or because of, Kenji's spiritual quest, he wrote many ...

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