Miekichi Suzuki

Template:Short description Template:Infobox writer Template:Nihongo was a Japanese novelist and author of children's stories from Hiroshima.

Biography

Memorial of Miekichi Suzuki in Hiroshima

Suzuki was born in Hiroshima. He studied English literature at Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo), and later launched a children's literature magazine called 赤い鳥 (Akai tori / Red Bird) in 1918.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Unusually for its time, the journal emphasized learning from observation and experience rather than rote learning, and focused on everyday language as much as ceremonial language.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 196 issues were published.

Major works

Suzuki's major works include:

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See also

• Japanese literature
• List of Japanese authors

External links

• e-texts of Miekichi Suzuki's works at Aozora Bunko Template:In lang
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