Ken'yūsha


Ken'yūsha (硯友社, The Society of Friends of the Inkstone) was a writers' society in Meiji era Japan, chiefly led by Ozaki Kōyō.[1] Ozaki founded the group with Ishibashi Shian and Maruoka Kyūka.[2] Its other members included Kawakami Bizan, Yamada Bimyō, and Hirotsu Ryurō.[3] The group's magazine, Garakuta Bunkō (我楽多文庫), launched in 1885, was the first Japanese journal to focus on literature.[2] It ceased publication in October 1889.

Ken'yūsha members, 1891

References
  1. Powell, Irena (1983-06-18). Writers and Society in Modern Japan. Springer. pp. 8–25. ISBN 978-1-349-05028-4.
  2. Morita, James R. (1969). "Garakuta Bunko". Monumenta Nipponica. 24 (3): 219–233. doi:10.2307/2383631. ISSN 0027-0741. JSTOR 2383631.
  3. Jun, Etō (1963). "The Japanese Literary World as a Sociological Phenomenon". The Journal-Newsletter of the Association of Teachers of Japanese. 1 (2): 10–20. doi:10.2307/488766. ISSN 0004-5810. JSTOR 488766.


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