Bōken sekai
Editor-in-chief | Shunro Oshikawa Tenpu Aw |
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Categories | Boys' adventure magazine |
First issue | 1908 |
Final issue | 1920 |
Company | Hakubunkan |
Country | Japan |
Based in | Tokyo |
Language | Japanese |
Bōken sekai (meaning Adventure World in English) was a boys' adventure magazine which was started during the late Meiji period in Japan. It was headquartered in Tokyo and existed between 1908 and 1920.
History and profile[]
Bōken sekai was established in 1908.[1][2] In the first issue the magazine stated its objective as “to tell exciting stories from throughout the world that will not only inspire a spirit of daring, courage, and sincerity, but eliminate all those runts who are weak, corrupt, and decadent.”[3] It was part of Hakubunkan Publications[4] and was based in Tokyo.[5] The magazine targeted male students and featured historical hero and adventure novels.[1] It frequently covered literary work about Japan’s victory in the Russo-Japanese War as well as about fantastic adventures around the world.[2]
Shunro Oshikawa was the founding editor-in-chief of Bōken sekai.[3] He was replaced by Tenpu Abe in the post in 1911 and his term ended in 1917.[6] The magazine ceased publication in 1920.[2]
References[]
- ^ a b Andrea Germer; Vera Mackie; Ulrike Wöhr (25 July 2014). Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan. Routledge. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-317-66715-5.
- ^ a b c Satomi Saito (2007). Culture and authenticity: the discursive space of Japanese detective fiction and the formation of the national imaginary (PhD thesis). University of Iowa. p. 42.
- ^ a b "Kuroko no Basket: On The Masculinity of the Shounen Hero". Hachimitsu. 15 October 2013. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ Owen Griffiths (September 2007). "Militarizing Japan: Patriotism, Profit, and Children's Print Media, 1894-1925". The Asia-Pacific Journal. 5 (9).
- ^ Carol Gluck (1985). Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period. Princeton University Press. p. 290. ISBN 0-691-00812-4.
- ^ Naoki Fujimoto (February 2012). "Future war novels in the past: which war did the humankind choose?" (PDF). National Diet Library Newsletter.
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