Hakubunkan
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Hakubunkan is a Japanese publishing company founded in 1887 amidst the wealth and military prosperity of the Meiji era. Hakubunkan entered the publishing arena by printing a nationalist magazine as we
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First issue of the first year (1906) of Shojo Sekai
Kyōka Izumi
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Kyōtarō Izumi, known by his pen name Izumi Kyōka, was a Japanese novelist, writer and kabuki playwright who was active during the prewar period.
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…large-scale literary magazine in Japan directed at a mass audience". Its early contributors included Kawakami Bizan, Hirotsu Ryurō, Kosugi Tengai, Izumi Kyoka and Higuchi Ichiyo. To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, Hakubunkan opened the free private Ōhashi Library (大橋図書館, Ōhashi Toshokan) (now the Sankō…
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Statue of Izumi in Kanazawa.
Izumi circa 1930s
Kyōka's grave in Zōshigaya cemetery.