Bungakukai

Bungakukai (文學界, "Literary World") is a Japanese monthly literary magazine published by Bungeishunjū as a junbungaku (純文学, lit. "pure literature") oriented publication.

Bungakukai

Frequency	Monthly
Publisher	Bungeishunjū
Founded	1893
Country	Japan
Based in	Tokyo
Language	Japanese
OCLC	5369295

History and profile

The first version of Bungakukai was published from 1893 to 1898.^[1] The founders were the first generation romantic authors in the country.^[2] The magazine featured articles on romanticism, modernism and idealism.^[1] The magazine's second version started in October 1933.^[3] Bungeishunjū has owned the magazine since then.^[4]

The headquarters of Bungakukai is in Tokyo.^[5] Along with Shinchō, Gunzo, Bungei and Subaru [ja; fr; de; ru], it is one of the five leading literary journals in Japan. It runs a contest for newcomer writers Bungakukai Shinjinshō (Japanese: 文學界新人賞, Newcomer Award of Literary World).

References

1. Louis-Frédéric; Käthe Roth (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
2. Yoshio Takanashi; Palgrave Connect (Online service) (2014). Emerson and Neo-Confucianism: Crossing Paths Over the Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-137-39507-8.
3. Oliviero Frattolillo (2014). Interwar Japan beyond the West: The Search for a New Subjectivity in World History. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-4438-6511-1.
4. Tom Brislin. "David and Godzilla: Anti-Semitism and Seppuku in Japanese Publishing". University of Hawaii. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
5. J. Thomas Rimer; Van C. Gessel (2013). The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature. Columbia University Press. p. 955. ISBN 978-0-231-53027-9.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)