Shirakaba

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Front page of the first issue of Shirakaba magazine (1910), showing a birch tree. (Drawn by Kojima Kikuo)

Shirakaba ( Japanese 白樺 , German birch ) is the name of a Japanese literary magazine that was published in Tokyo from April 1910 to 1923 . The magazine was the organ of an artist and writer group of the same name, the Shirakaba-ha ( 白樺 派 ). The Shirakaba group and the contributors to the magazine included Saneatsu Mushanokōji , who is also the head and organizer of the magazine, Shiga Naoya , Ōgimachi Kinkazu , Arishima Takeo , Ton Satomi , Ikuma Arishima and Kinoshita Rigen. The main ideas behind the group and its magazine, which played an important role in Japanese literature during the First World War , were individualism and liberalism. By August 1923, a total of 160 numbers had appeared in the magazine, but the planned number 161 was no longer published due to the effects of the Great Kanto earthquake and the magazine was discontinued. The magazine also influenced Japanese artists through the presentation of European art, for example by Auguste Rodin and Paul Cézanne .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imai, Nobuo and Mita, Masahito (eds.): Mushanokoji Saneatsu. Shinchosha, 1984. ISBN 4-10-620610-2 . P. 22.
  2. ↑ 雑 誌 白樺 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved March 4, 2014 (Japanese).

literature

  • S. Noma (Ed.): Shirakaba . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1395.