Akai Tori
| Akai Tori 赤 い 鳥 |
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Title page of the first edition, design by Shimizu Yoshio
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| description | Japanese literary magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Japanese children's literature |
| language | Japanese |
| First edition | July 1, 1917 |
| Frequency of publication | monthly, set August 1936 |
| editor | Suzuki Miekichi |
| Web link | www.library.city.hiroshima.jp/akaitori/index.html |
Akai Tori ( Japanese 赤 い 鳥 , dt. "Red Bird") was a Japanese literary magazine founded by the children's author Suzuki Miekichi and published from 1917 to 1936. A total of 196 editions were published until Miekichi's death in 1936 with three short interruptions, around 1923 because of the Kanto earthquake . It is considered to be very influential on the emerging Japanese children's literature and music of the modern age.
Authors such as Kikuchi Kan , Saijō Yaso , Tanizaki Jun'ichirō , Miki Rofū and others published works in the Akai Tori. In addition to the Akai Tori, the magazine Kin no fune ( 金 の 船 ) by Saitō Sajirō in 1919 and the Dōwa ( 童話 ) by Chiba Shōzō in 1920, two other magazines for children's literature in the same period. So the fairy tale Kanariya ( か な り や , for example: "Canary") , set to music by Narita Tamezō and written by Saijō Yaso, was first published in the May 1919 edition of Akai Tori.
Other significant works that appeared in the Akai Tori:
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Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Kumo no ito ( 蜘蛛 の 糸 )
- German "The Spider's Thread". Translated by Heinz Brasch, in: Japan told. Edited by Margarete Donath, Frankfurt 1990
- Arishima Takeo Hitofusa no budō ( 一 房 の 葡萄 )
- Niimi Nankichi Gon kitsune ( ご ん 狐 )
There are also three prizes associated with the Akai Tori: the Red Bird Literature Prize , the “Akai Tori Illustration Prize” ( 赤 い 鳥 さ し 絵 賞 ) and the “Niimi Nankichi Youth Literature Prize” ( 新 美 南吉 児 童 文学 賞 )
Individual evidence
Web links
- 鈴木 三重 吉 と 「赤 い 鳥」 の 世界 . Hiroshima City Library, 2009,accessed March 13, 2014(Japanese, With information about writers and works published in Akai tori).