Mimei Ogawa

Because he was one of the first authors to publish children's stories under his own name, Ogawa has been called Japan's Hans Christian Andersen,[2] an appellation he shares with Kurushima Takehiko.

Ogawa studied at the Faculty of English Literature at Waseda University, where he graduated in 1905.

The Cow Woman, published in 1919, described a mother whose soul could not rest after her death, because her son was left in wretched poverty.

Ogawa's stories often incorporate religious and philosophical symbolism and the cycle of life.

The death of creatures is not final, but is instead just the opportunity to appear in a different form, such as in The Cow Woman.