Miyazawa Kenji - The Restaurant with Many Orders

July 22, 2008 on 10:10 pm | In Books, Language, Media | | Email This Post

The TheJapanShop.com now has one of Miyazawa Kenji’s most famous stories, 「注文の多い料理店」The Restaurant with Many Orders, available as a 5-dollar downloadable package that includes the story text, and an accompanying audio file with a native speaker reading the text.

Kenji Miyazawa

In addition, the furigana for every Kanji is provided, and you also get a definition for every vocabulary word in context. You’ll be familiar with this type of product if you tried the JapanShop’s previous e-book/audio product to learn Japanese through Proverb’s.

Most Japanese children (from my wife’s generation anyway) read this story when they are in elementary school. Children read this story, but actually it’s pretty scary. You’ll know what I mean if you give it a read.

You can also read the entire text of The Restaurant with Many Orders on Aozora Bunko for free (it’s like Japan’s Gutenberg Project). However, because Aozora is meant for native Japanese, you won’t get any explanations or many furigana for the Kanji (especially uncommon furigana are given however). You can also read many other Miyazawa stories on Aozora as well, it’s a great resource.

More Miyazawa…

Another one of Miyazawa’s famous pieces is 「雨にも負けず」(ami ni mo makezu, roughly, I won’t lose to the rain). You can read the full text of ami ni mo makezu online as well.

Stay tuned for more enlightening Japanese literature!

- Harvey

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    That text is in the public domain and the materials have already been produced and are readily available for free.

    Free Text with Furigana:
    http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000081/files/43754_17659.html

    Free Audio File by Japanese Speaker:
    http://fantajikan.tea-nifty.com/blog/2007/04/post_c9ec.html

    Free Translation:
    http://tonygonz.blogspot.com/2006/05/restaurant-of-many-orders-miyazawa.html

    And even a Free Video:
    http://www.fantajikan.jp/down/02chumon_pc.zip

    Comment by Alex — July 22, 2008 #

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    Thanks for all that!

    I was skeptical about the free translation at first, but it’s great!

    This MP3 is quality as well! Though… I imagined the voices of the gentlemen to be a bit gruffer ;-)

    There are more audio files of stories here.
    http://www.fantajikan.jp/

    Comment by Harvey — July 23, 2008 #

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