Watashi wa Kumagusu / Iwai Keiya

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Japanese Literature
"To know is to live" The subjects of research are animals and plants, insects, mushrooms, algae, slime molds, constellations, virology, folklorists, etc. The subjects of research range from naturalist, biologist or folklorist. In the third year of Keio era, Kumagusu MINAKATA was born in Wakayama Prefecture. With an extraordinary curiosity, the boy ran around Yamano and collected animals and plants and insects. He wrote an encyclopedia and read its contents. He reached into all kinds of learning regardless of the east or west of the world. He became a teacher of nature in vast expanses and books of ten thousand volumes. Nozomi knows everything in this world. However, his feelings do not reach his father as a merchant. Despite his father's opposition, he went to the United States and the United Kingdom to continue his studies, but he did not see much of a light from his research that went beyond his sphere of influence. Unacknowledged agony and poverty, conflict with his family, glory as a scholar and separation from his beloved son. With his unbridled curiosity, he risked his life to collect and record all things in the world. This vividly revives the unconventional life of the "Knowledge Giant" who risked his life to collect and record all things in the world.