Miyazawa Kenji is a japanese writer and storyteller. He studied literature, science, astronomy, music. He grew up in Iwate, Tōhoku, in his works appears the “utopia” of ideal world, and Iwate take name of “Ihatovo”. During his life he published collections of poetry and stories for children but only after his death, Miyazawa Kenji’s works obtained great success. The world of Kenji’s “dōwa” is full of animals (for example : foxes, wildcats, beers), and these animals are placed side by side by humans. However, for the purpose of erasing superstitions, sometimes these animals are the representations of gods. Again, the same thing happens with “yamaotoko” in “Matsuri no ban”, where “yamaotoko” is a kind person. In Miyazawa Kenji’s works there are also the being of spirit world, moreover in his dōwa there are a lot of folktales. Tohoku is a place full of legends. Naturally, Miyazawa Kenji knows the folklore of Tohoku. The friendship with Yanagita Kunio, the author of Tono Monogatari (where we find folktales of Tohoku, as for example stories about “kappa”, “kitsune” and “yamaotoko”) and Sasaki Kizen, the contact with the inhabitants of village, bring him to write this kind of stories. Moreover, his knowledge and faith make special these dōwa. In dōwa Kenji describes mountain forest, mountains, and fields, in other words his birthplaces. Kenji with his dowa and a simple language didn’t want that folklore of old Japan disappear.