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 | | Childrenalong with the folk and the ruralwere cast as the repositories of the essence of humanity within a larger cultural movement to reject the ideals of worldly success and scientific progress and to relocate the modern in the primitive. |
 | | In neo-romantic childrens magazines like Suzuki Miekichis famous Red Bird (Akai tori) and Ogawa Mimeis Childrens Stories (Dôwa), the child was apotheosized as the embodiment of qualities judged absent from the modern world, including purity, goodness, innocence, and emotional spontaneity and was recast as an anti-adult (or a "child-like child"). |
 | | Nevertheless, in cooperation with Suzuki Miekichi and many other leading artists of the time, he devoted a great deal of his energy to the improvement of childrens poetry and song and the reform of arts education. |
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