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How has the Kalevala been read in Japan?

Finland’s national epic, the Kalevala, rarely gets top billing when Japanese readers chat about “Nordic literature.” Hans Andersen and Henrik Ibsen usually go first. Yet the Kalevala has enjoyed nearly a century of reception in Japan – shaped not only by translations and scholarship but also by classrooms, children’s books, concerts, and even cultu...

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