Bungakukai
{{Short description|Japanese literary magazine}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
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| publisher = Bungeishunjū
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{{Nihongo|Bungakukai|文學界||"Literary World"}} is a Japanese monthly literary magazine published by Bungeishunjū as a {{Nihongo|junbungaku|純文学||lit. "pure literature"}} oriented publication.
History and profile
The first version of Bungakukai was published from 1893 to 1898.{{cite book|author1=Louis-Frédéric|author2=Käthe Roth|title=Japan Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA90|year=2002|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-01753-5|page=90}} The founders were the first generation romantic authors in the country.{{cite book|author=Yoshio Takanashi|author2=Palgrave Connect (Online service)|title=Emerson and Neo-Confucianism: Crossing Paths Over the Pacific|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L7g5AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA28|year=2014|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-137-39507-8|page=28}} The magazine featured articles on romanticism, modernism and idealism. The magazine's second version started in October 1933.{{cite book|author=Oliviero Frattolillo|title=Interwar Japan beyond the West: The Search for a New Subjectivity in World History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CN4xBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA61|year=2014|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-6511-1|page=61}} Bungeishunjū has owned the magazine since then.{{cite web|author1=Tom Brislin|title=David and Godzilla: Anti-Semitism and Seppuku in Japanese Publishing|url=http://www2.hawaii.edu/~tbrislin/marco.html|work=University of Hawaii|accessdate=23 January 2017}}
The headquarters of Bungakukai is in Tokyo.{{cite book|author1=J. Thomas Rimer|author2=Van C. Gessel|title=The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VrEYtVFv67oC&pg=PA955|year=2013|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-53027-9|page=955}} Along with Shinchō, Gunzo, Bungei and {{Ill|Subaru (magazine)|lt=Subaru|ja|すばる (雑誌)|fr|Subaru (revue 1970)|de|Subaru (Zeitschrift)|ru|Субару (журнал)}}, it is one of the five leading literary journals in Japan. It runs a contest for newcomer writers Bungakukai Shinjinshō ({{langx|ja|文學界新人賞}}, Newcomer Award of Literary World).
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.bunshun.co.jp/mag/bungakukai/}} {{in lang|ja}}
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Category:1893 establishments in Japan
Category:Literary magazines published in Japan
Category:Magazines established in 1893