Shōjo Sekai

*Shōjo Sekai*
	Volume 3 Number 10, published July 1, 1908.
Editor / Publisher	Sazanami Iwaya
Categories	Shōjo, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, illustration, photography
Circulation	200,000 (peak in 1910)
Publisher	Sazanami Iwaya
Founded	1906
Final issue	December 1931
Company	Hakubunkan
Country	Japan
Based in	Tokyo
Language	Japanese

Shōjo Sekai (少女しょうじょ世界せかい, "Girls' World") was one of the first Japanese shōjo magazines. It was published by Hakubunkan from 1906 to 1931 and specializing in children's literature.

History[edit]

The Shōjo Sekai magazine was initially edited by renowned children's author Sueo Iwaya (巌谷いわや孝雄たかお), better known by the pen name Sazanami Iwaya (巌谷いわや小波さざなみ).^[1]^[2] Shōjo Sekai was created as a sister magazine to Shōnen Sekai (少年しょうねん世界せかい, "The Youth's World"), which was also edited by Iwaya, and which began publication in 1895.^[3]

The magazine's early fiction output tended to be of a didactic nature, with tales about self-sacrifice and the importance of obeying one's parents. The stories then started to focus on passionate bonds between girls, often featuring tones typical of the Class S genre.^[4]

According to Kiyoko Nagai, for the first ten years of its publication it was the best-selling shōjo magazine of the time, with peak circulations somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 copies per issue.^[5]

The final issue of Shōjo Sekai was the December 1931 issue.^[1]

Contributors[edit]

Shōjo Sekai had a number of well known contributors over the years, including the following:

Sazanami Iwaya (ja:巌谷いわや小波さざなみ), author, children's author, editor, publisher
Yasunari Kawabata, novelist and short story author
Chiyo Kitagawa (北川きたがわ千代ちよ), children's author
Tama Morita, essayist
Midori Osaki (ja:尾崎おざき翠みどり), novelist
Kikuko Oshima (尾島おじま菊子きくこ), author
Akiko Yosano, poet, feminist, pacifist, and social reformer
Nobuko Yoshiya, author

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Kikuyō-chō toshokan (菊陽きくよう町まち図書館としょかん, Kikuyō Town Library) Archived 23 August 2004 at the Wayback Machine. Meiji - Shōwa Shōjo Zasshi no Goshōkai (明治めいじ〜昭和しょうわ　少女しょうじょ雑誌ざっしのご紹介しょうかい, ″Meiji to Shōwa: An Introduction to Girls′ Magazines″) Archived 24 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 16 September 2008.
^ Sankō Toshokan (三さん康かん図書館としょかん, Sankō Library). Sankō Toshokan Zōsho Kensaku - Zasshi (三さん康かん図書館としょかん蔵書ぞうしょ検索けんさくー雑誌ざっし, Sankō Library Collection Search - Magazines) Archived 16 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 16 September 2008.
^ Nakagawa, Hiromi 中川なかがわ裕美ひろみ (2002). Waga Kuni ni Okeru “Shōjo Zasshi” no Tanjō to Hensen (我わが国くににおける『少女しょうじょ雑誌ざっし』の誕生たんじょうと変遷へんせん, “The Birth and Transformations of ‘Girls’ Magazines’ in Our Nation”) Archived 24 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Chūkyō Joshi Daigaku Kodomo Bunkagaku Kenkyū Dai-kyū-gō (中京女子大学ちゅうきょうじょしだいがく子こども文化ぶんか学がく研究けんきゅう　第だい９号ごう, Chukyo Women's University Children's Culture Studies, No. 9). Nagoya: Chūkyō Joshi Daigaku (中京女子大学ちゅうきょうじょしだいがく, Chukyo Women's University) Archived 17 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 16 September 2008.
^ Dollase, Hiromi Tsuchiya (2019). Age of Shōjo : the emergence, evolution, and power of Japanese girls' magazine fiction. Albany. ISBN 978-1-4384-7392-5. OCLC 1099255594.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Nagai, Kiyoko (永井ながい紀代子きよこ) (2000). Tanjō - Shōjo-tachi no Kaihōku: “Shōjo Sekai” to ‘Shōjo Dokushokai’ (誕生たんじょう・少女しょうじょたちの解放かいほう区く〜『少女しょうじょ世界せかい』と「少女しょうじょ読書どくしょ会かい」, "Birth of the Girls’ Liberated Zone: Girls’ World and ‘Girls’ Reading Circles’"). In Onna to Otoko no Jikū Kyū (女おんなと男おとこの時空じくう　９, “Women's and Men's Space-Time 9”), edited by Nobuko Kohno (河野こうの信子のぶこ), pp. 278-311. Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten 藤原ふじわら書店しょてん. ISBN 978-4-89434-212-5.

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[kikuyo-1] Kikuyō-chō toshokan (菊陽きくよう町まち図書館としょかん, Kikuyō Town Library) Archived 23 August 2004 at the Wayback Machine. Meiji - Shōwa Shōjo Zasshi no Goshōkai (明治めいじ〜昭和しょうわ　少女しょうじょ雑誌ざっしのご紹介しょうかい, ″Meiji to Shōwa: An Introduction to Girls′ Magazines″) Archived 24 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 16 September 2008.

[2] Sankō Toshokan (三さん康かん図書館としょかん, Sankō Library). Sankō Toshokan Zōsho Kensaku - Zasshi (三さん康かん図書館としょかん蔵書ぞうしょ検索けんさくー雑誌ざっし, Sankō Library Collection Search - Magazines) Archived 16 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 16 September 2008.

[3] Nakagawa, Hiromi 中川なかがわ裕美ひろみ (2002). Waga Kuni ni Okeru “Shōjo Zasshi” no Tanjō to Hensen (我わが国くににおける『少女しょうじょ雑誌ざっし』の誕生たんじょうと変遷へんせん, “The Birth and Transformations of ‘Girls’ Magazines’ in Our Nation”) Archived 24 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Chūkyō Joshi Daigaku Kodomo Bunkagaku Kenkyū Dai-kyū-gō (中京女子大学ちゅうきょうじょしだいがく子こども文化ぶんか学がく研究けんきゅう　第だい９号ごう, Chukyo Women's University Children's Culture Studies, No. 9). Nagoya: Chūkyō Joshi Daigaku (中京女子大学ちゅうきょうじょしだいがく, Chukyo Women's University) Archived 17 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 16 September 2008.

[4] Dollase, Hiromi Tsuchiya (2019). Age of Shōjo : the emergence, evolution, and power of Japanese girls' magazine fiction. Albany. ISBN 978-1-4384-7392-5. OCLC 1099255594.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[5] Nagai, Kiyoko (永井ながい紀代子きよこ) (2000). Tanjō - Shōjo-tachi no Kaihōku: “Shōjo Sekai” to ‘Shōjo Dokushokai’ (誕生たんじょう・少女しょうじょたちの解放かいほう区く〜『少女しょうじょ世界せかい』と「少女しょうじょ読書どくしょ会かい」, "Birth of the Girls’ Liberated Zone: Girls’ World and ‘Girls’ Reading Circles’"). In Onna to Otoko no Jikū Kyū (女おんなと男おとこの時空じくう　９, “Women's and Men's Space-Time 9”), edited by Nobuko Kohno (河野こうの信子のぶこ), pp. 278-311. Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten 藤原ふじわら書店しょてん. ISBN 978-4-89434-212-5.

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