Because I tell Miyazawa Kenji's stories to kindergarten children, I wanted to learn which works of Kenji's are used as teaching materials and how these works are treated in the elementary school. I read some material studies, especially those published in the Japanese Literature, and I found the following studies very suggestive. Fukawa Genichiro asked his students to draw a picture of their impression of a story and to interpret their picture orally for the class. The late Ozawa Toshiro and Sekiguchi Yasuyoshi encouraged their students to read the stories aloud. Paralleling Ozawa's suggestion of " the infant souls," I discuss, using the opinion of Tsurumi Shunsuke, Festival Evening. Festival Evening inspires us to realize the existence and the nature of life through " the children's eyes." By using Kenji's works as teaching materials, we can keep ourselves simple and naive.
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