Fujin Kōron

Fujin Kōron
The first issue of Fujinkōron
EditorKeiko Yokoyama (横山恵子)
CategoriesWomen's magazine
FrequencyBiweekly
PublisherChuokoron-Shinsha (中央公論新社)
Founded1916
First issueJanuary 1916
CountryJapan
Based inTokyo
LanguageJapanese
Websitehttp://www.fujinkoron.jp/

Fujin Kōron (婦人公論) (meaning Woman's Review in English) is a Japanese bi-weekly women's magazine published by Chūōkōron-Shinsha. It was founded under the concept of women's liberation and establishment of selfhood.[1] It was first published in January 1916 (Taishō 5).[2] It is one of the new intellectual feminist magazines in Japan during the 1910s.[3]

Notable works

Year Author Title
1923 Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Saru kani gassen (猿蟹合戦, The Crab and the Monkey)
1932 Fusako Kushi Memoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman (Horobiyuku ryukyu-onna no shuki,滅びゆく琉球女の手記)
1936 Ineko Sata (as Ineko Kubokawa) Crimson (Kurenai, くれなゐ)
1942 Osamu Dazai December 8th (Jūnigatsu youka, 十二月八日)
1950 Yukio Mishima Junpaku no yoru (純白の夜)
1959 Yukio Mishima Bunshō dokuhon (文章読本)
1964 Yukio Mishima The Music (Ongaku, 音楽)
1971-1972 Junichi Watanabe Akan ni hatsu (阿寒に果つ)

See also

References

  1. ^ "婦人公論 (advertisement)". Yomiuri Shimbun. 23 December 1915.
  2. ^ Ai Maeda (25 March 2004). Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity. Duke University Press. p. 167. ISBN 0-8223-8562-7.
  3. ^ Mackie, Vera (8 August 2002). Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900-1937. Cambridge University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-521-52325-7.


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