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Night on the Galactic Railroad (銀河鉄道の夜, Ginga Tetsudō no Yoru), sometimes translated as Milky Way Railroad, Night Train to the Stars or Fantasy Railroad in the Stars, [1] is a classic Japanese fantasy novel by Kenji Miyazawa written around 1927.
Night on the Galactic Railroad (銀河鉄道の夜, Ginga Tetsudō no Yoru, alternately Nokto de la Galaksia Fervojo in Esperanto) is a 1985 Japanese anime film directed by Gisaburo Sugii, based on the 1934 fantasy novel of the same name by Kenji Miyazawa. The film's screenplay was written by Minoru Betsuyaku.
As in the Night on the Galactic Railroad anime, the main characters are depicted as cats. The Japanese culture and lifestyle television show Begin Japanology aired on NHK World featured a full episode on Miyazawa Kenji in 2008. The JR train SL Ginga (SL銀河, Esueru Ginga) was restored with inspiration from and named in honor of his work in ...
Hiroshi Masumura (Japanese: ますむらひろし, Hepburn: Masumura Hiroshi, born October 23, 1952) [1] is a Japanese manga artist.He is best known for his adaptations of Kenji Miyazawa's children novels, including his work on the anime film Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985), and for several manga series set in the fantasy universe Atagoul.
Night on the Galactic Railroad, a Japanese novel by Kenji Miyazawa, written around 1927; Galaxy Express 999, a manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto, and the anime based on it; The Galaxy Railways, a sci-fi anime series produced by Leiji Matsumoto; Iwate Ginga Railway Line, a railway line running between Iwate and Aomori Prefectures, in Japan
The overall concept was inspired by the classic novel Night on the Galactic Railroad written by Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa, who lived in Hanamaki, Iwate. [3] Externally, the coaches were painted blue, evoking the night sky, with constellation and animal designs on the sides. [ 3 ]
Sirius Platoon, named after the star, is the main Platoon in the series.The Platoon's engine is Big One, which is based on the Union Pacific Railroad's 4-8-8-4 Big Boy locomotives, the largest steam locomotives ever built, but with many differences, like a second headlight in place of the bell and number boards, a single smokestack instead of a double one, a number board on the front of its ...
Hoshi Meguri no Uta (星巡りの歌, lit. ' Song of the Pilgrimage of the Stars ') is a piece of music composed in the pentatonic scale by Miyazawa Kenji in 1918. [1] It is featured in his 1934 novel Night on the Galactic Railroad as well as its 1985 animated adaptation, where it appears in a music box arrangement by Shimizu Osamu and Haruomi Hosono.