Miyoko matsutani biography

  • Miyoko Matsutani was a Japanese picture book author and folktale researcher.
  • Miyoko Matsutani (松谷 みよ子, February 14, 1926 – February 28, 2015) was a Japanese picture book author and folktale researcher.
  • Miyoko Matsutani (松谷 みよ子, February 14, 1926 – February 28, 2015) was a Japanese picture book writer and folktale researcher.

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    Miyoko Matsutani

    Japanese children's writer and novelist (1926–2015)

    Miyoko Matsutani(松谷 みよ子, February 14, 1926 – February 28, 2015) was a Japanese picture book author and folktale researcher. She is best known for writing the book Taro the Dragon Boy.

    Early life and education

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    Matsutani was born in Tokyo, Japan on February 14, 1926. She was the youngest child of Yojiro Matsutani [ja], a lawyer and politician. She was an avid reader.[1] She graduated from high school in 1943. However, because her father died when she was 11 years old, her family could not afford to send her to college. Instead, she worked at a bank called Nihon Kangyō Ginkō and the Japan Travel Bureau. In 1945, during the Bombing of Tokyo that occurred during World War II, her family evacuated to the city of Nakano in Nagano prefecture. While there she met Jōji Tsubota [ja], who mentored her as a writer.[2]

    Career

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    Matsutani's first book was a c

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    Matsutani, Miyoko (1926–)

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      Miyoko Matsutani:

      "Futari no Iida" / "Two Little Girls Called Iida"



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      The book was published in 1969. In 1979, the International Year of the Child, the book was placed on the Hans Christian Andersen Honor List.



      Moved by the A-bomb victims
      War experience underscores importance of peace




      Miyoko Matsutani

      Born in Tokyo in 1926. Her first book, a collection of short stories for children titled "Kaininatta Kodomo" ("A Story of a Child Turned into a Shell"), was published in 1951 and won the first Japan Juvenile Literature Association Award for New Writers. She has published as many