On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern JapanThe history of literary and artistic production in modern Japan has typically centered on the literature and art of Tokyo, yet cultural activity in the country's regional cities and rural towns was no less vibrant. On Uneven Ground recovers pieces of this neglected history through the figure of Miyazawa Kenji (1896 1933). While alive, he remained a mostly unknown and unread provincial author whose experiments with narrative fiction, amateur theater,