Myōjō
Myōjō ( Japanese 明星 ) was a monthly Japanese literary magazine for poetry, which was published from April 1900 to November 1908. The title of the magazine can be translated as morning star or the bright star .
The magazine was also the communication organ of the Shinshisha ( 新 詩社 , roughly: Society for New Poetry ), founded by Yosano Tekkan in 1899 . Myōjō magazine had originally devoted itself to developing and promoting a modern 31-morigen tanka shape. Other important members of the circle of poets who published in the Myōjō were poets who belong to Japanese romanticism and the current of aestheticism, such as Yosano Akiko , Hagiwara Sakutarō , Ishikawa Takuboku , Iwano Hōmei , Kitahara Hakushu , Noguchi Yonejirō , Kinoshita Rigen and Satō Haruo . The magazine was advised by Mori Ōgai , Ueda Bin and Baba Kochō , with Yosano Tekkan as editor-in-chief of the magazine.
Disagreement among poets then led to the discontinuation of the magazine with issue number 100 in 1908. The magazine was later revived twice: from 1921 to 1927 also by Yosano Tekkan and from 1947 to 1949.
Special incidents
Issue no. 8 published a two-sided nudes inspired by a French painting and designed by the illustrator Ichijō Seibi . This illustration caused outrage and this issue was banned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for immorality . Ichijō took responsibility and was subsequently excluded from the circle of poets.