Taiyō (magazine)
{{Short description|Japanese literary magazine (1895–1928)}}
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| language = Japanese
| country = Japan
| based = Tokyo
| founded = 1895
| firstdate = January 1895
| finaldate = 1928
| finalnumber = 34
| category = Literary magazine
| company = Hakubunkan
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Taiyō (太陽; The Sun) was a literary and general interest magazine that existed between 1895 and 1928 which covered the Meiji and Taishō eras. The magazine was published in Tokyo, Japan. It is a significant publication which contained mostly literary criticism, samples of Japanese literature and translations of the literary work by international authors.{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Taiyo|title=Taiyō. Japanese magazine|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica}} The magazine was one of the publications of Hakubunkan that made it well-known in the country.{{cite book
|editor1=Simon Eliot|editor1-link=Simon Eliot|editor2=Jonathan Rose|title=A Companion to the History of the Book|isbn=978-1-4443-5658-8|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CFiDCjMcnvcC&pg=PA117|year=2011|publisher=Wiley & Blackwell|page=117|author=Peter Kornicki|author-link=Peter Kornicki|chapter=Japan, Korea, and Vietnam|location=Hoboken, NJ; Chichester, West Sussex}}
History and profile
Taiyō was founded in 1895, and the first issue appeared in January 1895. Its publisher was Hakubunkan.{{cite web|title=Taiyo (The Sun)|work=Japan Knowledge|access-date=26 July 2020|url=https://japanknowledge.com/en/contents/taiyo/}} It was one of the most successful brands of the company.{{cite book|author=Adam Thorin Croft|title=Urban Culture in Pre-War Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4X6YDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT43|year=2019|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-429-74889-9
|page=43|location=Abingdon; New York}} The magazine targeted middle class people who were middle school graduate men and women.
Editors of Taiyō included Yoshino Sakuzō (1878-1933), Takayama Chogyū (1871–1902) and Hasegawa Tenkei (1876–1940).{{cite book|editor=Haruo Shirane|title=Envisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production|location=New York|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IumdAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA281|year=2008|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-14236-6|page=281|author=Tomi Suzuki|chapter=The tale of genji, national literature, language, and modernism|editor-link=Haruo Shirane}} It was instrumental in making romanticism and naturalism more popular in the Japanese literary circles. Therefore, the magazine featured translations of the work by major figures of these literary approaches, including Edgar Allan Poe, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Mark Twain, Maurice Maeterlinck and Leo Tolstoy. Major naturalist Japanese authors of which works were published in the magazine were Tokuda Shūsei, Tayama Katai and Shimazaki Tōson. Japanese author Shimizu Shikin had a column in the magazine for nearly five years.{{cite thesis|author=René Andersson|title=Burakumin and Shimazaki Toson's Hakai: Images of Discrimination in Modern Japanese Literature|year=2000
|url=https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lup/publication/3840a106-a154-4d70-b48c-eb904bf82f7c|location=Lund University|degree=PhD}} It was entitled Hanazono Zuihitsu ({{langx|ja|Scribblings from a Flower Garden}}), and she used her real name, Kozai Toyoko, in the column.
The content of Taiyō was comprehensive and was not limited to literary works.{{cite journal|author=Ali Volkan Erdemir
|title=Japanese Images of Turkey in Taiyō (The Sun)|url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/kare/issue/37773/436128|journal=Kare Dergi|year=2017
|volume=2|issue=1|issn=2536-4596}} The magazine was also influential in using innovative technologies such as photography and illustrations.{{cite web|author=Molly Des Jardin|title=Imperial Language in Taiyō Magazine|access-date=26 July 2020|date=March 2017
|url=https://pricelab.sas.upenn.edu/projects/imperial-language-taiy%C5%8D-magazine|work=Price Lab for Digital Humanities}} It frequently carried articles on political, military, economic and social commentary and on the Imperial family, women, commerce as well as articles on the natural sciences and cultural trends.{{cite journal|author=Leith Morton|title=The Concept of Romantic Love in the Taiyō Magazine 1895-1905|journal=Japan Review|year=1997|volume=8|issue=8|pages=79–103|jstor=25790980}}{{cite web
|author=Tokiko Y. Bazzell|title=Trial access to Taiyo (The Sun) 太陽 Full-text Database via Japan Knowledge|work=University of Hawaii at Manoa Library|url=https://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/japan/blog/Trial-access-to-Taiyo-magazine-full-texts-April-15-May-14|date=16 April 2019
|access-date=26 July 2020}} The magazine frequently covered articles about the Ottoman Empire which were accompanied with photographs and illustrations.
Takayama Chogyū published articles on literature, philosophy, and aesthetics in the magazine.{{cite web|title=Takayama, Chogyu
|url=https://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/285.html?cat=78|work=NDL|access-date=26 July 2020}} Masaharu Anesaki wrote for Taiyō under the pen name Anesaki Chōfū, including an article on German composer Richard Wagner's opera work.{{cite book|editor1=Neil Gregor|editor2=Thomas Irvine|title=Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor
|chapter=Was ist Japanisch? Wagnerism and Dreams of Nationhood in Modern Japan|author=Brooke McCorkle|year=2018|publisher=Berghahn Books
|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qzhmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA176|isbn=978-1-78920-033-1|page=176|location=New York}} It was one of the earliest articles about Wagner in Japan. From 1902 Taiyō began to publish selected photographs of natural landscapes in Japan.{{cite journal|author=Tomoo Mizutani|title=Impact of landscape photographs distribution by the "Taiyo" magazine on the way Japanese see natural landscape|url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jila/80/5/80_405/_article|journal=Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture|year=2017|volume=80|issue=5}}
Taiyō ended publication in February 1928 after producing 34 volumes and 531 issues. The volumes of the magazine was digitalizated by JKBooks on the JapanKnowledge+ platform.{{cite news|title=Taiyō Magazine and Nationhood
|url=http://www.mollydesjardin.com/blog/taiyo-magazine-and-nationhood/|access-date=26 July 2020|work=Molly des Jardin|date=20 September 2016}} A similar archive also exists at the library of the Ohio State University.{{cite web|title=Hakubunkan's Taiyō (1895-1928) full text|url=https://library.osu.edu/site/japanese/tag/magazine/|work=Library of Ohio State University|access-date=26 July 2020|date=18 June 2012}} The texts published in Taiyō were used to generate a corpus of Japanese language.{{cite journal
|author=Kikuo Maekawa|title=Kotonoha, the Corpus Development Project of the National Institute for Japanese Language|journal=Proceedings of the 13th NILJ Conference|year=2006|pages=52–62|url=https://www2.ninjal.ac.jp/kikuo/NIJLSymp06_KM2rev.pdf}}
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