Bungakukai
Bungakukai ( Japanese 文學界 , dt. " World of literature") is the name of three Japanese literary magazines that were published at different times, not in parallel. Since August 1947, the fiction magazine of the publisher Bungei Shunjū ( 文藝 春秋 ) has been published monthly under the title Bungakukai . This is particularly committed to the discovery of new writers and awards the so-called newcomer price ( 文學界 新人 賞 , Bungakukai shinjinshō ). Within Japan it is one of the so-called five major literary magazines ( 五大 文 芸 誌 , godai bungeishi ).
history
The first Bungakukai magazine was published in January 1893 by Kitamura Tōkoku , Shimazaki Tōson , Ueda Bin , Togawa Shūkotsu and Hirata Tokuboku , and it sparked a new romantic trend in the literature of the time. In January 1898, however, the magazine was taken out of print again. There is no connection to the current magazine by Bungei Shunjū .
The second Bungakukai magazine was first published in October 1933, this time by Hayashi Fusao , Takeda Rintarō ( 武田 麟 太郎 ), Kobayashi Hideo and the later Nobel Prize winner for literature, Kawabata Yasunari . In 1938, when Ishikawa Jun published the war-critical Martian poem in the magazine, a publication ban was imposed on it for “promoting anti-war tendencies”. The poem's writer, Ishikawa Jun, and the magazine's editor, Kawakami Tetsutarō , were fined, but this was paid by the founder of Bungei Shunjū, Kikuchi Kan . In connection with this incident, the Bungakukai magazine was taken over by Bungei Shunjū until the publication was temporarily suspended in April 1944. In June 1947 it was reissued by this and has been one of its regularly published titles ever since.
The Bungakukai is one of the five largest literary magazines in Japan , along with Gunzō , Shinchō , Subaru and Bungei .
See also
Web links
- Bungakukai website (Japanese)