KAGAWA, Toyohiko.

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Dowashu: Uma no Tengoku ("Fairy Tale Collection: In Horse Heaven"). First edition of this collection of five children's tales written by a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 and 1948, followed by the Nobel Peace Prize in 1954 and 1955. WorldCat lists one copy, in the National Diet Library, Japan.Kagawa Toyohiko (1888-1960) was an evangelical Christian activist who studied at Tokyo Presbyterian College and Princeton Theological Seminary. He campaigned to eliminate poverty, exposed practices of illegal prostitution and marriage, advocated for women's suffrage, and was arrested for participating in strikes in 1921 and 1922. He was again arrested in 1940 for publicly apologizing for the Japanese invasion of China. The five stories are "In Horse Heaven", "The Reed Pipe", "Jesus and the Donkey", "God's Scarecrow", and "The Land of Hopes and Dreams". The cover depicts the first story, where a young boy dreams of visiting horse heaven and learning to speak their language.

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