Fujin Kōron

{{Short description|Japanese women's magazine}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}}

{{Infobox magazine

| image_file = Fujinkōron first issue.jpg

| image_caption = The first issue of Fujinkōron

| editor = Keiko Yokoyama (横山恵子)

| category = Women's magazine

| publisher = Chuokoron-Shinsha (中央公論新社)

| founded = 1916

| firstdate = January 1916

| frequency = Biweekly

| country = Japan

| based = Tokyo

| language = Japanese

| website = http://www.fujinkoron.jp/}}

{{Nihongo|Fujin Kōron|婦人公論}} (meaning Woman's Review in English) is a Japanese bi-weekly women's magazine published by Chūōkōron-Shinsha. It was founded under the concept of women's liberation and establishment of selfhood.{{Cite news|url=https://database-yomiuri-co-jp.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/rekishikan/viewerMtsStart.action?objectId=Bh0J7PVchImvNiYvbw5MoUdsmrnKD1YIg0qbc00EGxk%3D|title=婦人公論 (advertisement)|date=23 December 1915|work=Yomiuri Shimbun}} It was first published in January 1916 (Taishō 5).{{cite book|author=Ai Maeda|title=Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ff4ucRG56IwC&pg=PA167|date=25 March 2004|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=0-8223-8562-7|page=167}} It is one of the new intellectual feminist magazines in Japan during the 1910s.{{cite book|author=Mackie|first=Vera|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rQzmUjiWedMC&pg=PA86|title=Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900-1937|date=8 August 2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52325-7|page=86|author-link=Vera Mackie}}

Notable works

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!Year

!Author

!Title

1923

|Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

|Saru kani gassen (猿蟹合戦, The Crab and the Monkey)

1932

|Fusako Kushi

|Memoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman (Horobiyuku ryukyu-onna no shuki,滅びゆく琉球女の手記)

1936

|Ineko Sata (as Ineko Kubokawa)

|Crimson (Kurenai, くれなゐ)

1942

|Osamu Dazai

|December 8th (Jūnigatsu youka, 十二月八日)

1950

|Yukio Mishima

|Junpaku no yoru (純白の夜)

1959

|Yukio Mishima

|Bunshō dokuhon (文章読本)

1964

|Yukio Mishima

|The Music (Ongaku, 音楽)

1971-1972

|Junichi Watanabe

|Akan ni hatsu (阿寒に果つ)

See also

References