Fujin Kōron Explained

Editor:Keiko Yokoyama (横山恵子)
Category:Women's magazine
Publisher:Chuokoron-Shinsha (中央公論新社)
Founded:1916
Firstdate:January 1916
Frequency:Biweekly
Country:Japan
Based:Tokyo
Language:Japanese
Website:http://www.fujinkoron.jp/

(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

YearAuthorTitle
1923Ryūnosuke AkutagawaSaru kani gassen (猿蟹合戦, The Crab and the Monkey)
1932Fusako KushiMemoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman (Horobiyuku ryukyu-onna no shuki,滅びゆく琉球女の手記)
1936Ineko Sata (as Ineko Kubokawa)Crimson (Kurenai, くれなゐ)
1942Osamu DazaiDecember 8th (Jūnigatsu youka, 十二月八日)
1950Yukio MishimaJunpaku no yoru (純白の夜)
1959Yukio MishimaBunshō dokuhon (文章読本)
1964Yukio MishimaThe Music (Ongaku, 音楽)
1971-1972Akan ni hatsu (阿寒に果つ)

See also

Notes and References

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