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平成8年文化人 << 1996年(平成8年) 8月27日 >> 2-5-184

Cultural Leaders Issued on August 27, 1996 (Heisei 8)

Cultural Leaders Issued on August 27, 1996 (Heisei 8)
On August 27, 1996, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued two types of cultural stamps (Vol. 5). Kenji Miyazawa, a literary scholar in the Taisho era, and a national scholar in the Edo period. Kenji Miyazawa is a poet and fairy tale writer. As an agricultural leader, he contributed to improving the lives of farmers and wrote poems and fairy tales on the subject of nature and life in the Tohoku region. He published a collection of fairy tales such as "A restaurant with many orders". Hanawa Hokiichi was a blind scholar who was active in the latter half of the Edo period, and compiled the large literature collection "Gunsho Ruijū".