Shōjo Sekai

The Shōjo Sekai magazine was initially edited by renowned children's author {{nihongo|Sueo Iwaya|巌谷 孝雄}}, better known by the pen name {{nihongo|Sazanami Iwaya|巌谷 小波}}.[http://www.kikuyo-lib.jp/top.html {{nihongo3|Kikuyō Town Library|菊陽町図書館|Kikuyō-chō toshokan}}] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040823001738/http://www.kikuyo-lib.jp/top.html|date=23 August 2004}}. [http://www.kikuyo-lib.jp/08_menu.htm {{nihongo3|″Meiji to Shōwa: An Introduction to Girls′ Magazines″|明治〜昭和　少女雑誌のご紹介|Meiji - Shōwa Shōjo Zasshi no Goshōkai}}] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024071116/http://www.kikuyo-lib.jp/08_menu.htm |date=24 October 2008}}. Retrieved 16 September 2008.[http://www.f2.dion.ne.jp/~sanko/index.html {{nihongo3|Sankō Library|三康図書館| Sankō Toshokan}}]. [http://www.f2.dion.ne.jp/~sanko/zasshiweb03_02.html {{nihongo3|Sankō Library Collection Search - Magazines|三康図書館蔵書検索ー雑誌| Sankō Toshokan Zōsho Kensaku - Zasshi}}] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216201912/http://www.f2.dion.ne.jp/~sanko/zasshiweb03_02.html|date=16 February 2012}}. Retrieved 16 September 2008. Shōjo Sekai was created as a sister magazine to {{nihongo|Shōnen Sekai|少年世界||"The Youth's World"}}, which was also edited by Iwaya, and which began publication in 1895.[http://azure.x0.com/ Nakagawa, Hiromi {{nihongo2|中川 裕美}}] (2002). [http://azure.x0.com/gyouseki/kodomo.html {{nihongo3|“The Birth and Transformations of ‘Girls’ Magazines’ in Our Nation”|我が国における『少女雑誌』の誕生と変遷|Waga Kuni ni Okeru “Shōjo Zasshi” no Tanjō to Hensen}}] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024145517/http://azure.x0.com/gyouseki/kodomo.html |date=24 October 2008}}. {{nihongo3|Chukyo Women's University Children's Culture Studies, No. 9|中京女子大学子ども文化学研究　第９号|Chūkyō Joshi Daigaku Kodomo Bunkagaku Kenkyū Dai-kyū-gō}}. Nagoya: [http://www.chujo-u.ac.jp/ {{nihongo3|Chukyo Women's University|中京女子大学|Chūkyō Joshi Daigaku}}] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917232832/http://www.chujo-u.ac.jp/ |date=17 September 2008}}. Retrieved 16 September 2008.

The magazine's early fiction output tended to be of a didactic nature, with tales about self-sacrifice and the importance of obeying one's parents. The stories then started to focus on passionate bonds between girls, often featuring tones typical of the Class S genre.{{Cite book|last=Dollase|first=Hiromi Tsuchiya|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1099255594|title=Age of Shōjo : the emergence, evolution, and power of Japanese girls' magazine fiction|date=2019|isbn=978-1-4384-7392-5|location=Albany|oclc=1099255594}}

According to Kiyoko Nagai, for the first ten years of its publication it was the best-selling shōjo magazine of the time, with peak circulations somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 copies per issue.Nagai, Kiyoko ({{nihongo2|永井 紀代子}}) (2000). {{nihongo3|"Birth of the Girls’ Liberated Zone: Girls’ World and ‘Girls’ Reading Circles’"|誕生・少女たちの解放区〜『少女世界』と「少女読書会」|Tanjō - Shōjo-tachi no Kaihōku: “Shōjo Sekai” to ‘Shōjo Dokushokai’}}. In {{nihongo3|“Women's and Men's Space-Time 9”|女と男の時空　９|Onna to Otoko no Jikū Kyū}}, edited by Nobuko Kohno ({{nihongo2|河野信子}}), pp. 278-311. Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten {{nihongo2|藤原書店}}. {{ISBN|978-4-89434-212-5}}.

The final issue of Shōjo Sekai was the December 1931 issue.

Shōjo Sekai had a number of well known contributors over the years, including the following:

• Sazanami Iwaya (:ja:巌谷小波), author, children's author, editor, publisher
• Yasunari Kawabata, novelist and short story author
• Chiyo Kitagawa ({{nihongo2|北川 千代}}), children's author
• Tama Morita, essayist
• Midori Osaki (:ja:尾崎翠), novelist
• Kikuko Oshima ({{nihongo2|尾島 菊子}}), author
• Akiko Yosano, poet, feminist, pacifist, and social reformer
• Nobuko Yoshiya, author

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