Miyazawa Kenji (1896-133) in Hanamaki, within a wealthy family. At 19 he was admitted to the School of Agriculture and Forestry Morioka and began publishing poems in literary magazines. After graduating, he returned in 1919 to his hometown to care for his sister Toshi, sick with tuberculosis. But, due to disagreements with his father, he moved to Tokyo, where he worked as an agronomist and engineer and teacher contacts the literary circles of the capital. Published his first stories with critical acclaim. In 1926 leaves the security of their jobs and moving to Shimoneki to engage in agriculture and writing. After struggling for years with pleurisy died in 1933, at age 37, after suffering acute pneumonia.