【Japanese Poem】“Ame Nimo Makezu“ （朗読：雨ニモマケズ）

“Ame Nimo Makezu“ (雨ニモマケズ) is a poem written by Kenji Miyazawa, a poet from Iwate prefecture in Japan who lived from 1896 to 1933. This poem was found posthumously in a small black notebook in one of the poet’s trunks. *Miyazawa chose to write the poem using katakana although katakana is nowadays usually only used in Japanese writing to denote foreign words. This is because, at the time, katakana rather than hiragana was the preferred syllabary. *Miyazawa wrote in the orthography common to his time, where コハガラナクテ (kohagaranakute) would today be rendered as コワガラナクテ (kowagaranakute), イヒ (ihi) as イイ (ii), and サウ (sau) as ソウ (sou).