The Study of the Modern History of Children 's publishing Culture: Hakubunkan Publishing in the Meiji Period

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370222
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese literature
• Research Institution: Kacho Junior College
• Principal Investigator: ENDO JUN 華頂短期大学, 幼児教育学科, 准教授 (10416258)
• Research Collaborator: ASAOKA YASUOU 白百合女子大学, 人間総合学部, 教授 (60788941)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 児童文学 / 児童文化 / 児童雑誌 / 博文館 / 巖谷小波 / 読者 / 出版

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research involved the recording and study of the contents of magazines such as Shonen Sekai.(Boys' World). The project investigated Hakubunkan from many perspectives such as publishing culture, education, and the history of magazines, and overviewed the organization of magazines of which IWAYA Sazanami was a chief editor. It also analyzed the magazines by looking at the concept of novels and literature in the magazines through actual novels, and articulated their roles in the organizing of many children's cultural activities. All of which confirmed that Hakubunkan's publishing of magazines for children formed the basis for the concept of Doshin Shugi (belief in children's innocence) in the Taisho period. The project also investigated the readers' columns of Hakubunkan magazines and compared them to ones from different publishers.

Free Research Field

児童文学・児童文化