Hayao Kawai

Hayao Kawai (河合隼雄, Kawai Hayao^?) (1928 – 2007) was a Japanese Jungian psychologist who has been described as "the founder of Japanese Analytical and Clinical Psychology". He introduced the sandplay therapy concept to Japanese psychology.^[1] He participated in Eranos from 1982.^[1] Kawai was the director of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies from 1995 to 2001.^[2] As chief of the Agency for Cultural Affairs from 2002 to 2007, he oversaw the popular Nihon no Uta Hyakusen song selection, as well as the "Kokoro no Note" ethics textbook now used in all Japanese primary schools. He died in Tenri Hospital following a stroke.

Published works

• The Japanese psyche: major motifs in the fairy tales of Japan (Mukashibanashi to Nihonjin no kokoro) translated by Sachiko Reece, ISBN 0882143689
• The Buddhist Priest Myōe: A Life of Dreams translated by Mark Unno, ISBN 0932499627
• Dreams, Myths and Fairy Tales In Japan translated by James G. Donat, ISBN 3-85630-544-0
• Buddhism and the art of psychotherapy, ISBN 1603440534

Awards

Kawai received the Osaragi Jiro Prize in 1982 for his work Japanese Psyche: Major Motifs in the Fairy Tales of Japan. In 1988 he received the Shincho Gakugei Prize in Learning and the Arts for The Buddhist Priest Myōe: A Life of Dreams.^[3]

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