Spring and Shura - Haruto Shura

This is the only collection of poems by Miyazawa Kenji published during his lifetime. It was published in April 1924 (Taisho 13). In addition to the important prologue that begins with "The phenomenon known as myself is a single blue light from a hypothetical organic alternating current lamp," which reveals the secrets of his "mental sketch" technique, the book contains 64 poems, from "Refractive Index" (January 6, 1922) to "Winter and the Galactic Station" (December 10, 1923), in order of the date of conception or first draft. The original idiom, vivid poetry, and cosmic sensibility of the poems only attracted the attention of a few discerning critics and poets when they were first published, but after the poet's death, they gradually came to be recognized as a monumental work of modern poetry. The series starting with "The Morning of Eternal Farewell," which is based on the death of his younger sister, is well known.

[Taijiro Amasawa]

"The Complete Works of Kenji Miyazawa 2" (1973, Chikuma Shobo)

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宮沢賢治の唯一の生前刊行詩集。1924年（大正13）4月刊。「わたくしといふ現象は／仮定された有機交流電燈の／ひとつの青い照明です」と始まる「心象スケッチ」の手法の秘密にかかわる重要な序詩のほか、「屈折率」（1922.1.6）から「冬と銀河ステーション」（1923.12.10）まで64編が、発想または第一稿の日付順に収められている。その独創的な語法、鮮烈なポエジー、宇宙的感覚は、刊行当初は少数具眼の評家・詩人の注目をひいただけであったが、詩人没後、近代詩の記念碑的著作としての評価がしだいに定まった。妹の死を素材とした「永訣(えいけつ)の朝」以下の連作はよく知られている。

［天沢退二郎］

『『校本宮沢賢治全集2』（1973・筑摩書房）』

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